insatiate

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9
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9
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈseɪ.ʃɪət/
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/ɪnˈseɪ.ʃɪət/ · /ɪnˈseɪ.ʃɪ.ət/ · /ɪnˈseɪ.ʃɪt/ · /ɪnˈseɪ.ʃi.ɪt/

Definition of insatiate

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic, literary)That is not satiated; insatiable.
    “Light vanitie inſatiate cormorant, / Conſuming meanes ſoone praies vpon it selfe: […]”
    “Satan exalted ſat, by merit raiſ'd / To that bad eminence; and from deſpair / Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aſpires / Beyond thus high, inſatiate to pursue / Vain Warr with Heav'n, and by ſucceſs untaught / His proud imaginations thus diſplaid.”
    “I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge.”
    “A boy of eighteen years mid myrtle-boughs / Lying love-languid on a morn of May, / Watched half-asleep his goats insatiate browse / Thin shoots of thyme and lentisk, by the spray / Of biting sea-winds bitter made and grey: […]”
    “that mode of manning the fleet, a mode now fallen into a sort of abeyance but never formally renounced, it was not practicable to give up in those years. Its abrogation would have crippled the indispensable fleet, […] a fleet the more insatiate in demand for men, because then multiplying its ships of all grades against contingencies present and to come of the convulsed Continent.”

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Etymology

From Late Middle English insaciate, insaciat, insacyate (“insatiable”), from Latin insatiātus, from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + satiātus (“satisfied; having been satisfied”) (perfect passive participle of satiō (“to satisfy”), from satis (“enough; filled; plenty”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, satisfy”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).

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