satiate

First attested in the 1440-1450's, in Middle English; borrowed from Latin satiātus, perfect passive participle of satiō (“to fill full, satiate, satisfy”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from satis (“sufficient”).

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

     Our generals now, retir'd to their estates,
     Hang their old trophies o'er the garden gates;
     In life's cool evening satiate of applause

• “satiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “satiate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “satiate”, in 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