Part 5936

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The premium paid for insuring property or life.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The sum for which life or property is insured.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The most acceptable <b>insurance</b> of the divine protection. <i>Mickle.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Accident insurance</col>, <cd>insurance against pecuniary loss by reason of accident to the person.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Endowment insurance</col> &or; <col>assurance</col></mcol>, <cd>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.</cd> -- <col>Fire insurance</col>. <cd>See under <er>Fire</er>.</cd> -- <col>Insurance broker</col>, <cd>a broker or agent who effects insurance.</cd> -- <col>Insurance company</col>, <cd>a company or corporation whose business it is to insure against loss, damage, or death.</cd> -- <col>Insurance policy</col>, <cd>a certificate of insurance; the document containing the contract made by an insurance company with a person whose property or life is insured.</cd> -- <col>Life insurance</col>. <cd>See under <er>Life</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Insurancer</h1> <Xpage=773>

<hw>In*sur"an*cer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<blockquote>hose bold <b>insurancers</b> of deathless fame. <i>Blair.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Insurant</h1> <Xpage=773>

<hw>In*sur"ant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The person insured.</def>

<i>Champness.</i>

<h1>Insure</h1> <Xpage=773>

<hw>In"sure</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Insured</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Insuring</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>ensuren</ets>, prob. for <ets>assuren</ets>, by a change of prefix. See 1st <er>In-</er>, and <er>Sure</er>, and cf. <er>Assure</er>, <er>Ensure</er>.]</ety> <altsp>[Written also <asp>ensure</asp>.]</altsp>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To make sure or secure; <as>as, to <ex>insure</ex> safety to any one</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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>as, a merchant <ex>insures</ex> his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are <ex>insured</ex> against fire or water; persons are <ex>insured</ex> against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are <ex>insured</ex>.</as></def>

<h1>Insure</h1> <Xpage=773>

<hw>In*sure"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To underwrite; to make insurance; <as>as, a company <ex>insures</ex> at three per cent</as>.</def>

<h1>Insurer</h1> <Xpage=773>

<hw>In*sur"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter.</def>

<h1>Insurgence, Insurgency</h1> <Xpage=773>

<hw><hw>In*sur"gence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>In*sur"gen*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection.</def>

<blockquote>A moral <b>insurgence</b> in the minds of grave men against the Court of Rome. <i>G. Eliot.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Insurgent</h1> <Xpage=773>

<hw>In*sur"gent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>insurgens</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>insurgere</ets> to rise up; pref. <ets>in-</ets> in + <ets>surgere</ets> to rise. See <er>Surge</er>.]</ety> <def>Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious.</def> "The <i>insurgent</i> provinces."

<i>Motley.</i>

<h1>Insurgent</h1> <Xpage=773>

<hw>In*sur"gent</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>insurgent</ets>.]</ety> <def>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.</def>