Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fullness or excess of supply; the state of being saturated; repletion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The state of being saturated; fullness of supply.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The state of being
satiated ;fulness ,repletion .
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Examples
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If fortitude be that by which "they that hunger are blessed," let us pray that our daily bread be this day given us, by which we may come to full saturity.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842
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Philosophy says that the appetites of the body ought not to be augmented by the mind, and ingeniously warns us not to stir up hunger by saturity; not to stuff, instead of merely filling, the belly; to avoid all enjoyments that may bring us to want; and all meats and drinks that bring thirst and hunger: as, in the service of love, she prescribes us to take such an object as may simply satisfy the body's need, and does not stir the soul, which ought only barely to follow and assist the body, without mixing in the affair.
The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 15 Michel de Montaigne 1562
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Philosophy says that the appetites of the body ought not to be augmented by the mind, and ingeniously warns us not to stir up hunger by saturity; not to stuff, instead of merely filling, the belly; to avoid all enjoyments that may bring us to want; and all meats and drinks that bring thirst and hunger: as, in the service of love, she prescribes us to take such an object as may simply satisfy the body's need, and does not stir the soul, which ought only barely to follow and assist the body, without mixing in the affair.
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562
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