sate
English
Alternative forms
- sade (obsolete)
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From earlier sate, sade (“to satiate, satisfy”), from Middle English saden (“to satisfy, become satiated”), from Old English sadian (“to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadōnan (“to satiate, become satisfied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated”), from Proto-Indo-European *sā- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Cognate with Middle Low German saden, Middle High German saten (“to saturate, satisfy, satiate”), Icelandic seðja (“to satisfy”). More at sad.
Verb
sate (third-person singular simple present sates, present participle sating, simple past and past participle sated)
- To satisfy; fill up.
- At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- 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.
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Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English, from Old English sæt, first and third person singular preterite of sittan (“to sit”).
Verb
sate
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.
Etymology 3
From Malay sate (“satay”).
Noun
sate (plural sates)