sation
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin satio, from serere, satum (“to sow”). Doublet of season.
Noun edit
sation
- (obsolete) A sowing or planting.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
- And though there seem nothing improbable in the seed, it hath not succeeded by sation in any manner of ground, wherein we had no reason to despair, since we reade of vegetable horns, and how Rams horns will root about Goa.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)