sate

present singular third person sates · participle present sating · participle past sated · past sated · alternative dialectal sade

1. transitiveTo satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.

   At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.

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   crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities

   1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC

   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.

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

   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.

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

   Synonyms: satiate, fill up

alternative dialectal sade

1. dateddialectalpastpoeticsimple past of sit

   And all the day the girl sate trying to think of names to say to it when it came at night.

   1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Tom Tit Tot”, in English Fairy Tales, page 6

2. dateddialectalparticiplepastpoeticpast participle of sit

alternative dialectal sade

1. dateddialectalpoeticsatay