satiate

Borrowed from Latin satiatus, past participle of satiare (“to fill full, satiate”), from sat + satis (“sufficient”) + satur (“full”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪʃɪeɪt/

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satiate (third-person singular simple present satiates, present participle satiating, simple past and past participle satiated)

1. (transitive) To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.

   Nothing seemed to satiate her desire for knowledge.

2. (transitive) To satisfy to excess. To fill to satiety.

Used interchangeably with, and more common than, sate.[1]

• sate

• satiated

satiate (comparative more satiate, superlative most satiate)

1. Filled to satisfaction or to excess.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IV, scene i:

     A ſnowy Feather ſpangled white he beares,
     To ſignifie the mildneſſe of his minde,
     That ſatiate with ſpoile refuſeth blood:

   • 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:

• sate
• satiation
• satiety
• satisfaction
• satisfactory
• satisfy

• satiate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• satiate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• satiate at OneLook Dictionary Search

satiāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of satiō

satiāte

1. vocative masculine singular of satiātus

• “satiate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press