Meanings
- formalnot comparablerareThirsty.
Oh, Christopher rheumatism doth not seem to have made thee less esurient or sitient, when the hospitality of Glasgow, or of other gormandizing and boozing places, is within thy reach.
1820 December, letter from Leighton Buzzard to Christopher North, published in 1821 January, Semihorae Biographicae No. III, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 8, page 3581 more example
So that (as I apprehend) theſe Famelick, Eſurient, and Sitient Spirits are not the Ferments product of Concoction in the Ventricle, but only incentives, ordained by nature to render us deſirous of Aliment, to repair the decaying frame of our Body.
1685, Samuel Collins, “Of the Serous Ferment of the Stomach”, in A Systeme Of Anatomy, Treating of the Body of Man, Beasts, Birds, Fish, Insects, and Plants. […], volumes I (Containing the Parts of the Lowest Apartiment of the Body of Man and Other Animals, &c.), in the Savoy [London]: Printed by Thomas Newcomb, →OCLC, book I, 2nd part (Of the Three Appartiments of Mans Body, […]), page 306
Origin
- Latinsitiēns“thirsting, thirsty”
- Englishsitient
Borrowed from Latin sitiēns (“thirsting, thirsty”).
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