*insur*

v. t. To render insecure; to put in danger. [ Obs. ] Fanshawe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A form of medical insurance that pays for all or part of the fees for a person's residence and treatment in a hospital. [ PJC ]

a. [ From Insure. ] Capable of being insured against loss, damage, death, etc.; proper to be insured. [ 1913 Webster ]

The French law annuls the latter policies so far as they exceed the insurable interest which remained in the insured at the time of the subscription thereof. Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Insure. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The person who undertakes to pay in case of loss is termed the insurer; the danger against which he undertakes, the risk; the person protected, the insured; the sum which he pays for the protection, the premium; and the contract itself, when reduced to form, the policy. Johnson's Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The premium paid for insuring property or life. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The sum for which life or property is insured. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The most acceptable insurance of the divine protection. Mickle. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Hence: Any means of assuring against loss; a precaution; as, we always use our seat belts as insurance against injury. [ PJC ]

Accident insurance, insurance against pecuniary loss by reason of accident to the person. --
Endowment insurance or
Endowment assurance, a combination of life insurance and investment such that if the person upon whose life a risk is taken dies before a certain specified time the insurance becomes due at once, and if he survives, it becomes due at the time specified. Also called whole life insurance. --
Fire insurance. See under Fire. --
Insurance broker, a broker or agent who effects insurance. --
Insurance company, a company or corporation whose business it is to insure against loss, damage, or death. --
Insurance policy, a certificate of insurance; the document containing the contract made by an insurance company with a person whose property or life is insured. --
Life insurance. See under Life. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

hose bold insurancers of deathless fame. Blair. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The person insured, called also the insured. Champness. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Insured p. pr. & vb. n. Insuring. ] [ OE. ensuren, prob. for assuren, by a change of prefix. See 1st In-, and Sure, and cf. Assure, Ensure. ] [ Written also ensure. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures at three per cent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter.

{ } n. A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection. [ 1913 Webster ]

A moral insurgence in the minds of grave men against the Court of Rome. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. insurgent. ] A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.

Syn. -- See Rebel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. insurgens, p. pr. of insurgere to rise up; pref. in- in + surgere to rise. See Surge. ] Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious. “The insurgent provinces.” Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being insurmountable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + surmountable: cf. F. insurmountable. ] Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hope thinks nothing difficult; despair tells us that difficulty is insurmountable. I. Watts.

Syn. -- Insuperable; impassable; invincible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being insurmountable; insurmountability. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner or to a degree not to be overcome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. insurrectio, fr. insurgere, insurrectum: cf. F. insurrection. See Insurgent. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. Ezra iv. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rising in mass to oppose an enemy. [ Obs. ]

Syn. -- Insurrection, Sedition, Revolt, Rebellion, Mutiny. Sedition is the raising of commotion in a state, as by conspiracy, without aiming at open violence against the laws. Insurrection is a rising of individuals to prevent the execution of law by force of arms. Revolt is a casting off the authority of a government, with a view to put it down by force, or to substitute one ruler for another. Rebellion is an extended insurrection and revolt. Mutiny is an insurrection on a small scale, as a mutiny of a regiment, or of a ship's crew. [ 1913 Webster ]

I say again,
In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Insurrections of base people are commonly more furious in their beginnings. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was greatly strengthened, and the enemy as much enfeebled, by daily revolts. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though of their names in heavenly records now
Be no memorial, blotted out and razed
By their rebellion from the books of life. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. insurrectionnel. ] Pertaining to insurrection; consisting in insurrection. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their murderous insurrectionary system. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who favors, or takes part in, insurrection; an insurgent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Insurance a second time or again; renewed insurance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A contract by which an insurer is insured wholly or in part against the risk he has incurred in insuring somebody else. See Reassurance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To insure again after a former insurance has ceased; to renew insurance on. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To insure, as life or property, in favor of one who has taken an insurance risk upon it. [ 1913 Webster ]

The insurer may cause the property insured to be reinsured by other persons. Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. to provide additional insurance for.
Syn. -- reinsure. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to insure again by transferring to another insurance company all or a part of a liability assumed.
Syn. -- reinsure. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who gives reinsurance. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Insurance for a specified term providing for no payment to the insured except upon losses during the term, and becoming void upon its expiration. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Life Insurance) Insurance in which the benefits of the insurance are distributed upon the tontine principle. Under the old, or
full tontine, plan, all benefits were forfeited on lapsed policies, on the policies of those who died within the tontine period only the face of the policy was paid without any share of the surplus, and the survivor at the end of the tontine period received the entire surplus. This plan of tontine insurance has been replaced in the United States by the
semitontine plan, in which the surplus is divided among the holders of policies in force at the termination of the tontine period, but the reverse for the paid-up value is paid on lapsed policies, and on the policies of those that have died the face is paid. Other modified forms are called free tontine, deferred dividend, etc., according to the nature of the tontine arrangement. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]