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I T H O U T TA S T E There are also some Apples that are insipid, or without taste: they are of a waterish substance, altogether vnpleasant to the stomack, and vnprofitable for meat. Venner, Tobias. 1620. Via recta ad vitam longam. London: Richard Moore. The vertues therefore of Baths coming not from insipid water, but from those most subtile, volatile, sulphureous, and salt spirits. Glauber, Johann Rudolf. 1651. A description of new philosophical furnaces, or A new art of distilling. London: Tho: Williams.
I T H O U T TA S T E Mr. Craufurd fully disposed of the argument that the people of Bengal would not consume more salt if they could get it. He showed that their climate was damp—that the country was distant from the sea—that the soil was not impregnated with saline particles — that the diet of the people was vegetable and insipid, and that their poverty excluded them from the use of every other condiment. Parliamentary Debates: House of Commons, Mr John G. Phillimore, 28 July 1853 vol. 129 c934. If people were compelled to drink pure water how many would drink it at all? Pure water was the most insipid and objectionable fluid that one ever tasted; in the first place you could not get pure water unless it was distilled. There was such a thing as pure whisky... Parliamentary Debates: House of Commons, Mr John G. Phillimore, 16 March 1906 vol. 153 c1565.
T H O U T TA S T E Beefe was grosse, veale flashy, mutton fulsome, rabbets, hens, & capons common. Chettle, Henry. 1593. Kind-harts dreame. Conteining fiue apparitions, vvith their inuectiues against abuses raigning. London: William Wright.
O U T TA S T E ...as for Flesh, Broths, Gellies, Watergruel, Ptisans, Barley water, and suchlike dull vapid things, &c. they are all to be abandoned and excluded from entering. Thomson, George. 1666. Loimotomia, or, The pest anatomized in these following particulars. London: Nath. Crouch.
A C K I N G I N T E R E S T / AT T R A C T I V E Q U A L I T I E S Fifthly, consider, The longer we enjoy any worldly thing, the more flat and insipid doth it grow: We are soon at the bottom, and find nothing but dregs there. Hopkins, Ezekiel. 1668. The vanity of the vvorld by Ezekiel Hopkins. London: Nathaniel Ranew and Jonathan Robinson. It is certainly true, that Women are caught for the most part in such weak Nets as these, that the most shallow, the most insipid, nay, the uglyest of Men have been the most successful in gaining an ascendant over the hearts of poor Women. Pallavicino, Ferrante. 1683. The whore’s rhetorick calculated to the meridian of London, and conformed to the rules of art. London: George Shell.
course of legislation of a homely character; it was now a homely subject, and he would apply to it a homely epithet— he would call it suet-pudding legislation; it was flat, insipid, dull, but it was very wise and very wholesome; and he very much preferred the latter kind of legislation to the former. Parliamentary Debates: House of Commons, Mr Thomas Salt, 7 July 1875 vol. 225 c1064. I N S I P I D A S L A C K I N G I N T E R E S T / AT T R A C T I V E Q U A L I T I E S
C I F I C A L LY O F S P E E C H O R W R I T I N G Thy Poetrie’s insipid, none can taste it: Thou art a wordyfoolish Scribler, who Writ’st nothing but high-sounding frothy stuff. Shadwell, Thomas. 1678. The history of Timon of Athens, the man- hater as it is acted at the Dukes Theatre: made into a play. London: Henry Herringman. For I know some will say, why does he treat us with insipid descriptions of Weeds, and make us hobble after him over broken stones, decayed buildings, and old rubbish? Wheler, George. 1682. A journey into Greece by George Wheler, Esq., in company of Dr. Spon of Lyons. London: William Cademan, Robert Kettlewell, and Awnsham Churchill.
C I F I C A L LY O F S P E E C H O R W R I T I N G A dull insipid Writer none can bear, In every place he is the publick jeer, And Lumber of the Shops and Stationer. Oldham, John. 1684. Some new pieces never before publish’d by the author of the Satyrs upon the Jesuites. London: Jo. Hindmarsh. I recollect that in the last Parliament, in the days of the Coalition under the leadership of the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) the right hon. Gentleman was at variance with the Press even more than are the present occupants of the Front Bench. The language used by the right hon. Member would make the language used by the Lord President of the Council seem tepid and insipid. Parliamentary Debates: House of Commons, Mr Maurice Webb, 29 October 1946 vol. 428 c567.
T S They are perfect strangers to that admirable way of pronunciation, which by an agreeable and well–order’d mixture of softness and vehemency does at once charm, and move, and ravish the Souls of the Hearers: And besides, their whole Discourses do usually consist of a ridiculous Medley of insipid Jests and childish Tales. Misson, Maximilien. 1695. A new voyage to Italy with a description of the chief towns, churches, tombs, libraries, palaces, statues, and antiquities of that country London: R. Bently and 4 others.
C O U R S E ...nothing can be more insipid, than such a Coxcombs discourse; he magnifies Tyranny, because he convers’d with none but the Commanding party. Blount, Charles (trans.) 1680. The two first books of Philostratus, concerning the life of Apollonius Tyaneus. London: Nathaniel Thompson.
G H T / S P E E C H / W R I T I N G ...the massive concession that my hon. Friend the Member for Arundel and South Downs [Mr. Flight] so painstakingly eked out of the Government—that new clause 7 should impose a limit of £400 million—is vapid, nugatory, empty and meaningless: the £400 million limit is no limit. Parliamentary Debates: House of Commons, Mr Oliver Letwin, 29 February 2000 vol. 345 c200.
I N T E R E S T I N G And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw... Milton, John. 1646. Poems of Mr. John Milton. London: Humphrey Moseley.
H E M I C A L LY U N R E A C T I V E Thus Quicksilver, that is insipid, will in the cold dissolve Gold, which Aqua Fortis it self, though assisted by exeternal heat will not work upon. Boyle, Robert. 1685. Of the reconcileableness of specifick medicines to the corpuscular philosophy. London: Sam. Smith.
I T H O U T VA L U E I can quite understand that even the milk of human kindness is apt to be somewhat insipid if it carries no practical benefit with it, and may seem a kind of sterilised milk from which all the nutritive properties have been extracted. Parliamentary Debates: House of Commons, Mr George Wyndham, 7 May 1901 vol. 93 c1015.
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