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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of insinuate.

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insinuate + -eth

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Examples

  • Some are better able to sustain, such as are hot and moist, phlegmatic, as Hippocrates insinuateth, some strong and lusty, well fed like [2992] Hercules, [2993] Proculus the emperor, lusty

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • This is abhominable, — which he would call abbominable: it insinuateth me of insanie: anne intelligis, domine? to make frantic, lunatic.

    Love’s Labour ’s Lost 2004

  • I renounce that religion, be it whose it will, that teacheth, insinuateth, or giveth countenance unto, such abominations.

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • This is abhominable, which he would call abominable, —it insinuateth me of insanie: anne intelligis, domine?

    Act V. Scene I. Love’s Labour’s Lost 1914

  • This is abhominable which he would call abominable; it insinuateth me of insanie; _Ne intelligis, domine_? to make frantic, lunatic.

    The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

  • He maketh them promises, and insinuateth into them vain desires; yet

    The Koran (Al-Qur'an) George Sale 1716

  • Yea, he insinuateth that the disbelief of them may stand with true holiness in those to whom the gospel is not sufficiently made known.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • By which words he insinuateth the mystical union that is between Christ the head, and the Elect his body: arguing from the suffering of a part, there should be a sympathy in the whole.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • By this word patience, Paul insinuateth how many imperfections, the choicest

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • This is evident from Paul, who insinuateth this as the reason, why "none do good," even because

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

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