{"id":3421,"date":"2017-08-09T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T08:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2017-08-09T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T08:29:09","slug":"insense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2017\/08\/09\/insense\/","title":{"rendered":"Insense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Insense<\/strong>: a word which survived in use in Staffordshire until at least the late 1820s. Seeming to mean: to inform or briefly instruct a group of people about information useful to them, thus helping them to make sense of a situation.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/insense.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/insense.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"513\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3422\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/gentlemansmagazi02lond#page\/4\/mode\/2up\">The Gentleman&#8217;s Magazine Library: being a classified collection<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Monthly Magazine<\/em> of 1806 talks of&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>insense<\/em>, to instruct, or put in the head of any one: as for instance, the judge is said to insense the jury how to bring in their verdict&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Atheneum<\/em> of 1827 referred to it as Scottish and\/or Scots-Irish&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;to unravel those mysteries which the people want taste and leisure to study for themselves, and to insense the multitude (I like that Hibernicism) on their dearest interests&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is referred to as &#8220;a north country expression&#8221; in a memoir of 1869 (<em>A Memoir of H. Hoare<\/em>), so was at that time either dying out or had never existed in the south of England. <\/p>\n<p>But, since Shakespeare used it, it may once have been present as far south as south Warwickshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insense: a word which survived in use in Staffordshire until at least the late 1820s. Seeming to mean: to inform or briefly instruct a group of people about information useful to them, thus helping them to make sense of a situation. Source: The Gentleman&#8217;s Magazine Library: being a classified collection. The Monthly Magazine of 1806 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}