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Urge :: Urge (v. i.) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

Insistent :: Insistent (a.) Insisting; persistent; persevering.

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another..

Urge :: Urge (v. t.) To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case..

Urgency :: Urgency (n.) The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion..

Insistent :: Insistent (a.) See Incumbent.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.

Dormant :: Dormant (a.) Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles..

Insistence :: Insistence (n.) The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency..

Insist :: Insist (v. i.) To take a stand and refuse to give way; to hold to something firmly or determinedly; to be persistent, urgent, or pressing; to persist in demanding; -- followed by on, upon, or that; as, he insisted on these conditions; he insisted on going at once; he insists that he must have money..

Waive :: Waive (v. t.) To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.

Consist :: Consist (v. i.) To insist; -- followed by on.

Insisture :: Insisture (n.) A dwelling or standing on something; fixedness; persistence.

Insisted :: Insisted (imp. & p. p.) of Insis.

Successive :: Successionist (n.) A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid..

Insisting :: Insisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Insis.

Insistently :: Insistently (adv.) In an insistent manner.

Insist :: Insist (v. i.) To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon..

Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o

Insistent :: Insistent (a.) Standing or resting on something; as, an insistent wall..

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