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a.
Insisting; persistent; persevering.
a.
See Incumbent.
v. i.
To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
n.
Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.
n.
A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.
v. i.
To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.
imp. & p. p.
of Insist
n.
A dwelling or standing on something; fixedness; persistence.
v. i.
To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.
v. t.
To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case.
a.
Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Insist
a.
Standing or resting on something; as, an insistent wall.
v. t.
To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.
adv.
In an insistent manner.
v. i.
To take a stand and refuse to give way; to hold to something firmly or determinedly; to be persistent, urgent, or pressing; to persist in demanding; -- followed by on, upon, or that; as, he insisted on these conditions; he insisted on going at once; he insists that he must have money.
n.
The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.
n.
The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
n.
The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
v. t.
To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
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