Instyle
(In*style") v. t. To style. [Obs.] Crashaw.

Insuavity
(In*suav"i*ty) n. [L. insuavitas: cf. F. insuavité. See In- not, and Suavity.] Want of suavity; unpleasantness. [Obs.] Burton.

Insubjection
(In`sub*jec"tion) n. Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.

Insubmergible
(In`sub*mer"gi*ble) a. Not capable of being submerged; buoyant. [R.]

Insubmission
(In`sub*mis"sion) n. Want of submission; disobedience; noncompliance.

Insubordinate
(In`sub*or"di*nate) a. Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous.

Insubordination
(In`sub*or`di*na"tion) n. [Cf. F. insubordination.] The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.

Insubstantial
(In`sub*stan"tial) a. Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." [R.] Shak.

Insubstantiality
(In`sub*stan`ti*al"i*ty) n. Unsubstantiality; unreality. [R.]

Insuccation
(In`suc*ca"tion) n. [L. insucare, insucatum, to soak in; pref. in- + succus, sucus, sap.] The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs. [Obs.] Coxe.

The medicating and insuccation of seeds.
Evelyn.

Insuccess
(In`suc*cess") n. Want of success. [R.] Feltham.

Insue
(In*sue") v. i. See Ensue, v. i.

Insuetude
(In"sue*tude) n. [L. insuetudo, from insuetus unaccustomed; pref. in- not + suetus, p. p. of suescere to be accustomed.] The state or quality of being unaccustomed; absence of use or habit.

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
Landor.

Insufferable
(In*suf"fer*a*ble) a.

1. Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs. Locke.

2. Offensive beyond endurance; detestable.

A multitude of scribblers who daily pester the world with their insufferable stuff.
Dryden.

Insufferably
(In*suf"fer*a*bly), adv. In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.

Insufficience
(In`suf*fi"cience) n. Insufficiency. Shak.

Insufficiency
(In`suf*fi"cien*cy) n. [L. insufficientia: cf. F. insuffisance, whence OE. insuffisance. See Insufficient.]

1. The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc.

The insufficiency of the light of nature is, by the light of Scripture, . . . fully supplied.
Hooker.

2. Want of power or skill; inability; incapacity; incompetency; as, the insufficiency of a man for an office.


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