sate

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  1. transitive verb To satisfy (an appetite) fully.
  2. transitive verb To satisfy to excess.
  3. verb Archaic A past tense of sit.

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  • The office opened by a large folding-door into the capacious dining-room where the family usually sate, and where he lingered after each meal, talking, or reading the day's paper, which he took in to the last, as if loth to retire to his own particular den. —  Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
  • "(Frisco) has one of the most beautiful Nordic centers in the sate, and this event is always very well organized." —  Summit Daily News - Top Stories
  • The court sate, and no one appeared. —  The Reign of Mary Tudor
  • Opposite him as he sate was the face of a great pile of rocks, and while his eye dwelt upon it it suddenly began to wink and glisten with little moving points, dots so minute that he could hardly distinguish them. —  Joyous Gard
  • He sate, the old man, in his clumsily fitting gaiters, bowed or crouched in an arm-chair, reading a letter. —  Joyous Gard
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  1. Probably alteration of Middle English saden, from Old English sadian; see sā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Irreg. from L. satiare, satisfy, satiate, apparently resting in part on the L. sat for satis, sufficient: see satiate, satisfy.
 

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