LekhoriLekhoriTo be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).
- Marvel owns your gods! - Insulting is not arguing.
To assail, assault, or attack; (specifically, military) to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.
Giue me thy knife, I will inſult on him, Flattering my ſelfes, as if it were the Moore, Come hither purpoſely to poyſon me.
To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone).
And doe you ſe how he inſulteth ouer me, as though hee had gotten a great aduantage, and how hee taketh heere his reuenge vpon me, for the ſhipwracke hee ſuffered before, in the matter of his ſyllogyſme?
Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.
Preſent we meet thy ſneaking treacherous ſmiles; The harmleſs abſent ſtill thy ſneer reviles; Such as in thee all parts ſuperior find, The ſneer that marks the fool and knave combin'd; When melting pity would afford relief The ruthleſs ſneer that insult adds to grief.
The verb is derived from Middle French insulter (modern French insulter (“to insult”)) or its etymon Latin īnsultō (“to spring, leap or jump at or upon; to abuse, insult, revile, taunt”), the frequent...
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Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.
The exact nature of the teratological insult in diabetic pregnancy, and the cell biological details of the induced disturbances, are not known.