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insistent, a. (n.)|ɪnˈsɪstənt|
Also 9 -ant.
[ad. L. insistent-em, pr. pple. of insistĕre to insist.]
1. Standing or resting on something. rare.
1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1672) 19 That the breadth of the Substruction be at least double to the insistent Wall. 1755Johnson, Insistent, resting upon anything. a1886S. Ferguson Ogham Inscript. (1887) 125 Parallel straight lines insistent on and dependent from others.
2. Dwelling firmly on something asserted, demanded, etc.; persistent, urgent. Hence, Enforcing attention, obtruding itself upon the attention.
1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy iii. 234 The eye of day, The insistent summer sun, seems pitiless. 1876― Dan. Der. iv. xxx, He got no answer, and..repeated his question in an insistent tone. 1879Froude Cæsar xiii. 187 The aristocracy had become more insistent upon the privilege of birth. 1880T. Hardy Trumpet-Major III. xxxii. 56 The solitude was rendered yet more insistent by the silence of the mill-wheel. 1888Pall Mall G. 2 Oct. 1/2 The insistent facts of sin, suffering, and misery. 1893F. C. Selous Trav. S.E. Africa 50 The natives..were very insistent that I should try and shoot one.
3. Ornith. [F. insistant.] Applied to the hind toe of birds when it is inserted so high that it touches the ground only with its tip: opposed to incumbent.
1886in Syd. Soc. Lex.
B. as n. An insistent person.
1868Kinglake Crimea (1877) IV. xiii. 408 Insistants..approaching him with their urgency. 1881Mrs. C. Praed Policy & P. I. 17 ‘We don't mean to let you clear out’..cried one of these insistents.
Hence inˈsistently adv., in an insistent manner, with insistence.
1873R. Broughton Nancy II. 117 He earnestly and insistantly begs of me to gather all my people..around me. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. v. xxxvi, ‘Then tell me what better I can do’, said Gwendolen, insistently. 1879H. James Hawthorne 114 The interest of the story lies..in the situation which is insistently kept before us. |