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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1510-1651
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Satiat, Saciat, p.p. Also: -ate, saceat. [e.m.E. sacyate (1526), L. satiāt-, p.p. stem of satiāre; Satiat v.] Satiated, glutted. Const. with, of, in, be.1535 Stewart 52268.
The Inglismen … Of Scottis blude quhilk mich[t] not satiat be 1548 Knox III 10.
The godly man … in reading, talking, or meditation … is never satiate 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 8026.
In mennis sicht presenting ane angell, And sine inwart satiat with subteltie 1568 Lyndesay Pref. (STS) 398.
Ȝit culd thay neuer get power ouer this sempil man, nor haif thair hartis satiat of him 1579 Reg. Privy C. III 128.
The said Johnne, not beand satiat heirwith … come … and … removed hir tennentis thairof 1582 Criminal Trials I ii 103. 1582–3 Perth B. Ct. 9 Feb.
And that he not only wes satiat thairwith bot lykwayis kest hir doun the said tolbuith stair 1584 Reg. Privy C. III 683.
Not having satiat thair hartis with this enorme forme of dealing 1590-1 R. Bruce Serm. 155.
Let thy heart fixe thy love as lang as thou will upon the creatures, thou sall never be satiate. … But gif ains thou love God [etc.] 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I 168.
The said Mathou tuik ane heavie seiknes … with ane extreme drouth, that he culd navayes be satiat a1599 Rollock Wks. I 447.
Ane man will drink in that spreit, and desire to be satiat with that water 1614 Drummond in Insh Colonial Schemes 44.
Tables removed, efter Homer's fassion well satiat, he honord me so much as to schow me his bookes and papers 1616 Criminal Trials III 586.
Thay quha, in thair ȝouth-heid, war trwbillit with famine … , can nocht … by no plentie, be satiat a1634 Forbes Rec. 448. a1651 Calderwood IV 36.
As that the thrist and crueltie of the procurers therof might be satiat and slockened therewith(b) c1510 Prester John 310b.
Quha euer enteris in it he how hungry that euer he be he salbe fulfillit and saciat 1531 Bell. Boece I xiii.
And with his lust couth nocht be saciat 1531 Ib. 199.
Quhen his lust was saciat 1531 Ib. 83. 1533 Boece 339b.
Be this torment saciat was nocht the kingis ire 1533 Ib. 579.
To sla thame & be saciat of blud 1533 Ib. 610b.
The pepill … mycht nocht be saciate to woundere sa grete formosite of hir … gudlie portratoure 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 96/6.
Saceat 1549 Ib. 81/14. c1550 Rolland Court of Venus i 211. c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5049.
Wes neuer none, nor neuer salbe, Saciate, that sycht tyll that he se 1624 Perth Kirk S. MS 7 June.
And he him self als appeiring drunk … ȝit culd nocht be saciat 1625 Garden Kings 11.
Oft surfetting, yit never saciat [: that]
