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unsatiate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ʌnˈseɪʃiət/

Etymology

From un- + satiate.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) Insatiable.
    • Unsatiate covetise 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:
    • 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. 1633, Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], Loues Sacrifice. A Tragedie […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], →OCLC, Act IV:

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more unsatiate Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most unsatiate Degree=Sup lexicographic