unsatiate

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ satiate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈseɪʃiət/

Adjective

unsatiate (comparative more unsatiate, superlative most unsatiate)

1. (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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unsatiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)