2. To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or
action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at
him, is to insult him.
In*sult", v. i. 1. To leap or jump.
Give me thy knife, I will insult on him.
Shak.
Like the frogs in the apologue, insulting upon their wooden king.
Jer. Taylor.