Insult
Insult , noun
[Latin insultus, from insilire to leap upon: compare French insulte. See Insult, transitive verb]
1.
The act of leaping on; onset; attack. [Obsolete] — Dryden
2.
Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; a deprecatory remark; an affront; an indignity.
The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief.
3.
(Medicine, Biology) An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes.
Insult , transitive verb
[French insulter, Latin insultare, freq. from insilire to leap into or upon; pref. in- in, on + salire to leap. See Salient.]
1.
To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare
2.
To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
Insult , intransitive verb
1.
To leap or jump.
Give me thy knife, I will insult on him.
Like the frogs in the apologue, insulting upon their wooden king.
2.
To behave with insolence; to exult. [Archaic]
The lion being dead, even hares insult.
An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity.