insulse

From Latin īnsulsus; prefix in- not + salsus (“salted”), from salīre (“to salt”).

insulse (comparative more insulse, superlative most insulse)

1. (obsolete) insipid, dull, stupid or tasteless
   • 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 172:

     […] will ever appeare among the judicious to be but an inſuls and frigid affectation.

• “insulse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Silenus

insulse

1. feminine plural of insulso

īnsulse

1. vocative masculine singular of īnsulsus

• “insulse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “insulse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• insulse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.