Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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INSIST, v. Sc. usages:
‡1. With for: to insist upon (Sc. 1782 J. Sinclair Ob. Sc. Dial. 22; Cai., ‡m.Lth. 1958).Sc. 1763 Edb. Museum (March) 143:
She had a gold ring on her finger, which one of them insisted for.
†2. Absol. To continue with a discourse, to go on talking, preaching, etc.Sc. 1728 P. Walker Six Saints (Fleming) I. 134:
He halted and said, There is some unhappy Body just now come into this House, I charge him to go out, and not stop my Mouth; the Body went off, and he insisted, and saw him neither come in nor go out.Sc. 1735 Ayr Presb. Reg. MS. (10 Jan.):
The minute of last Synod anent brethrens insisting on Subjects in their publick discourses that tend more to raise animosities than Godly edifying.Sc. 1808 Jam.:
He insisted lang, he gave a long sermon.
3. Sc. Law, absol. or with in: to proceed with a charge or action at law, to continue with one's case.Sc. 1701 Burgh Rec. Gsw. (1908) 320:
Considering that the complaint . . . is remitted be the parliament to the lords of sessione, and that the same is to be insisted in before the saids lords in the beginning of June nixt.Sc. 1712 G. W. T. Omond Arniston Memoirs (1887) 55:
I being unwilling to give him the advantage of letting the process fall, did, by advice, chuse rather to insist.Sc. 1769 Erskine Principles i. v. § 13:
Where a stipend is only modified, it is secured on the whole teinds of the parish, so that the minister can insist against any one heritor to the full extent of his teinds.Sc. 1798 Edb. Mag. (Oct.) 315:
The Advocate Depute judged it proper not to insist in this prosecution.Sc. 1893 A. J. G. Mackay Practice Ct. Session 285:
The abandonment of a part of the cause, in which the pursuer cannot insist, is incompetent, for the abandonment is of the right to insist.Sc. 1948 W. J. Dobie Sheriff Ct. Practice 245:
If [a defender] is not to insist in his defences, he should lodge a minute withdrawing them and consenting to decree.
