insitiency
English
Etymology
From in- (“not”) + Latin sitiens, present participle of sitire (“to be thirsty”), from sitis (“thirst”).
Noun
insitiency (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Freedom from thirst.
- 1701, Nehemiah Grew, “Of the Ends of Providence. And First, in this Life.”, in Cosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God. […], London: […] W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B[enjamin] Walford: […], OCLC 642328229, 3rd book, paragraph 37, page 99:
- And vvhat is more admirable, than the Fitneſs of every Creature, for the Uſe vve make of him? […] the Inſitiency of a Camel, for travelling in the Deſerts of Africa and other Parts; […]
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for insitiency in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)