Insignia, s

pl. [Lat. pl. of insigne, neut. of in sign is distinguished by a mark. 1. Badges or distinguishing marks of office or honor. 2. Marks or signs by which anything is or may be known or distinguished. 8. insignificantly 1. Not significant; void of signification; wanting in meaning or signification. "Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and punishments."-Bp. Wilkins: Of Natural Religion, bk. i., ch. xi. 2. Having no weight or importance; unimportant, trivial, mean. not deserving or calling for notice. "Witne its insignificant result." Cowper: Conversation , 17. 3. Without weight of character; mean, contemptible, beneath notice. "What school-boy, what little insignificant monk could not have made a more elegant speech for the king?" Milton: Defense of the People of England. -ly.] in-sig-nif-1-cant-ly, adv . [ Eng.insignificant ; 1. Without meaning or signification. "They use them insignificantly, as the organ or pipe renders the tune which it understands not."Hale: Origin of Mankind , p. 66. IMG:content-1721.png:[blocks in formation] "I hardly yet have learned To insinuate , flatter, bow, and bend my knee." Shakesp.: Richard II ., iv. 1. 6. To hint; to suggest indirectly. A person who insinuates adopts every art to steal into the goodwill of another; but he who goodwill. A person of insinuating manners wins ingratiates adopts unartificial means to conciliate upon another imperceptibly, even so as to convert dislike into attachment: a person with ingratiating manners procures goodwill by a permanent intercourse. Insinuate and ingratiate differ in the motive, as well as the mode, of the action; the Without importance or effect; unimportantly; motive is, in both cases, self-interest; but the trivially. "With all the prettine of feigned alarm, And anger insignificantly fierce."