insatiate
English
Etymology
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From Late Middle English insaciate, insaciat, insacyate (“insatiable”),[1] 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)).[2]
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: in‧sa‧tiate, in‧sa‧ti‧ate
Adjective
insatiate (comparative more insatiate, superlative most insatiate)
- (archaic or literary) That is not satiated; insatiable.
- Antonyms: satiable, satisfiable
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- 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, pages 49–50:
- I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge.
- 1878, John Addington Symonds, “Le Jeune Homme Caressant sa Chimère. For an Intaglio.”, in Many Moods: A Volume of Verse, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 36:
- 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: [...]
- 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter V.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC, page 240:
- [T]hat 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.
- 1980, Peter De Vries, chapter 5, in Consenting Adults, or The Duchess Will Be Furious, London: Penguin, →ISBN, page 69:
- Then again the heaving bosom of the Mediterranean, clothes strewn along the shore, running naked into the sea while wind-exported Andalusian odors spice the insatiate night!
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
that is not satiated — see insatiable
References
- ^ “insāciāt(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ Compare “insatiate”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1900; “insatiate, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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