▪ I. † inˈsition1 Obs.
Also 7 incision, inscition.
[ad. L. insitiōn-em, n. of action f. inserĕre to plant in, engraft, f. in- (in-2) + serĕre to sow, plant. From similarity of sound, and the use of cutting, formerly mixed up with incision.]
The action of engrafting, engraftment; concr. a graft.
| 1589 Fleming Virg. Georg. ii. 21 note, Semination, insition, inoculation..the three kindes of grafting. 1608 Willet Hexapla Exod. 79 The graffing and incision of trees. a 1682 Sir T. Browne Tracts (1684) 45 The rules of insition or grafting. 1691 Ray Creation i. (1692) 154 Improved by Transplantation, Stercoration, Insition, Pruning. |
b. transf. and fig.
| 1601 R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 144 These acquisitions are as it were incisions or graffings. 1630 Prynne Anti-Armin. 114 If no Predestination, then no Election, no inscition, no adoption into Christ. 1714 Phil. Trans. XXIX. 73 It has, metaphorically, the name of Insition or Inoculation. 1855 W. H. Mill Panth. Princ. 201 His ancestry's insition from the Idumean to the Jewish stock. |
▪ II. † insition2
obs. erron. form of incision.
| 1653 Walton Angler vii. 150 Cut or make an insition, or such a scar as you may put the arming wyer of your hook into it. |