"insisture" meaning in English

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          "ref": "c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:",
          "text": "The heaven themselves, the planets and this centre\nObserve degree, priority, and place,\nInsisture, course, proportion, season, form,\nOffice, and custom, in all line of order […]",
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          "ref": "1903, The Photographic News: A Weekly Record of the Progress, page 774:",
          "text": "[…] efforts by which, as in all past time[,] the serious workers have sought by their very insisture and strength to open new paths and roads afresh, […]",
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          "ref": "1953, A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare (Horace Howard Furness), page 402",
          "text": "Valla explains insisture and course for the planets thus: \"Cursus.) Quia modo celerius ire uidentur ob eccentri terrae proquinquitatem : modo tardius ob distantiam à terra : modo dirigi , cum sublimia petunt : modo repedare cum ambiunt epicyclum ...\""
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          "ref": "2004, Luke Thurston, James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis, page 82:",
          "text": "If the plays are one long signature, the name itself becomes an enormous pun, a polysemic node binding together insisture and testament, self-institution and self-perpetuation. Stephen's examples hint at such name-play: […] Insisture thus seems both to embody and to name a strange coincidence; […] we could say that Joyce redefines insisture as the performative instance of the name in the literary institution, its alchemical conversion of the particular instant to the timeless universal.",
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        "A dwelling or standing on something; fixedness; persistence."
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        "(obsolete) A dwelling or standing on something; fixedness; persistence."
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