unsatiate
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʌnˈseɪʃiət/
Adjective
unsatiate (comparative more unsatiate, superlative most unsatiate)
- (obsolete) Insatiable.
- 1633, Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], Loues Sacrifice. A Tragedie […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], →OCLC, Act IV:
- One, my lord, that doth ſo palpably, ſo apparently make her Adulteries a Trophey, vvhiles the poting-ſticke to her vnſatiate and more then goatiſh abomination, jeeres at, and flouts your ſleepiſh, and more than ſleepiſh, ſecurity.
- 1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΑΝΤΙΨΥΧΟΠΑΝΝΥΧΙΑ [Antipsychopannychia], or A Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, →OCLC:
- Unsatiate covetise
References
- “unsatiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.