intransitive. Of a person: to continue or remain steadfastly or constantly in a purpose, disposition, or course of action, esp. in the face of…

intransitive (or with object sentence): To affirm emphatically or conclusively; to insist. Obsolete. rare.

With to and infinitive. intransitive. In negative constructions or in conditional clauses. To stop or wait in order to do something; to make a point…

intransitive. to stand to it: to persist in asserting a statement, claim, etc.; to maintain. Chiefly with clause (esp. that-clause) as complement.

intransitive. To insist with iteration on or upon. Obsolete.

intransitive. To dwell at length or with emphasis on or upon (†of, †in) a matter; hence, to insist on = to assert or maintain persistently…

figurative. To devise plans laboriously, ‘cudgel one's brains’, debate or deliberate earnestly (upon, on, at, of); with upon, sometimes, To…

To stand or insist upon, on. Obsolete.

intransitive. With in, †upon. To insist on, to assert or maintain persistently.

transitive. To renew or repeat (an action, statement, etc.) with fresh force; to reiterate. Also (occasionally) intransitive. Obsolete. Cf. reinforce…

to swear pink (colloquial): to make vehement protestations; to ‘swear blind’.