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insensibly, adv.|ɪnˈsɛnsɪblɪ|
[f. insensible + -ly2.]
1. In an insensible manner or degree; imperceptibly; unconsciously; esp. so slightly or gradually that the action or process is not perceived; by imperceptible degrees.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. iii. ii. (1886) 33 The wife departeth out of her husbands armes insensiblie. 1639tr. Du Bosq's Compl. Woman i. 21 If insensibly we lay our hand where the paine is, wee likewise bring our tongue unawares, where the passion of the mind is. 1640–4in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 638 The other part..will insensibly moulder away. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 130 And what if sev'nth to these The Planet Earth, so stedfast though she seem, Insensibly three different Motions move? 1697Dryden Ess. Virg. Georg. ⁋2 In a curious Brede of Needle⁓work, one Colour falls away by..just Degrees, and another rises..insensibly. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xvii. (1869) I. 470 The agriculture of the Roman provinces was insensibly ruined. 1851Carpenter Man. Phys. (ed. 2) 351 The ultimate ramifications of the Arteries pass so insensibly into those of the Veins, that no definite line of demarcation between them can be drawn. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. II. vii. 53 The Witenagemót insensibly lost its authority.
†2. Without sense or understanding; stupidly, irrationally. Obs. rare.
a1603in Liturg. Serv. Q. Eliz. (Parker Soc.) 682 No doubt he is insensibly blockish. |