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English

Verb

sate (third-person singular simple present sates, present participle sating, simple past and past participle sated)

  • (transitive) To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
    • ✤ Synonyms: satiate, fill up
    • ✤ At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.
    • ✤ crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities1
    • ✤ Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome.2
    • ✤ And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because ‘twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.3

Verb

sate (dated, poetic or dialectal)

  • simple past of sit
    • ✤ And all the day the girl sate trying to think of names to say to it when it came at night.4
  • past participle of sit

Noun

sate

  • satay

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /seɪt/
  • Audio (US): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -eɪt

Etymology 1

Alteration (after words such as satiate and satisfy) of earlier sade (“to weary, satiate, satisfy”), from Middle English saden (“to weary, satisfy, become wearied or satiated”), from Old English sadian (“to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied”), from Proto-West Germanic ﹡sadōn (“to satiate, become satisfied”), from Proto-Germanic ﹡sadaz (“sated”), from Proto-Indo-European ﹡seh₂- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Cognate with Middle Low German saden, Middle High German saten (“to saturate, satisfy, satiate”), Icelandic seðja (“to satisfy”). Doublet of sad.

Etymology 2

From Middle English sate, satte, from Old English sæt, first and third person singular preterite of sittan (“to sit”).

Etymology 3

From Malay sate (“satay”).

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Footnotes

  1. 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC: ↩

  2. 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC: ↩

  3. [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC: ↩

  4. 1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Tom Tit Tot”, in English Fairy Tales, page 6: ↩

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