insurance Copy link • insurance: Phr.: an i. company, *societas per quam fenore dato de damnis s. jacturis resarciendis praecavetur (the term fenus nauticum was used in a sense analogous to that of marine insurance, see Dict. Ant. p. 528, a.): i. money, ea cautio quam negotiatores assecurationis (Ger. assecuranz) nomine usurpant, Wyttenb. (in Kr.).