insist

  1. Verb.  (''with'' on ''or'' upon) to hold up a claim emphatically.
  2. Verb.  (''with'' on ''or'' upon) to demand continually that something happen or be done.
  3. Verb.  (obsolete) To stand ''on''; to rest ''upon''; to lean ''upon''. Used especially as a technical term in geometry.

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