▪ I. sate, v.
(seɪt)
Also 7 satt.
[App. a pseudo-etymological alteration of sade v., after L. sat, satis enough: cf. satiate v.]
1. a. trans. To fill or satisfy to the full (with food); to indulge or gratify to the full by the satisfaction of any appetite or desire.
| 1613–16 W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. i, A pious..sonne, Who..bringing..home Dried figs, Dates, Almonds,..sates the want Therewith of those, who, from a tender plant, Bred him a man for armes. 1634 Milton Comus 714 Wherefore did Nature powre her bounties forth,..But all to please, and sate the curious taste? a 1639 W. Whately Prototypes ii. xxvi. (1640) 84 So that no outward benefits may glut and satt our hearts. 1713 Johnson Guard. No. 8 ¶4 As his resentment was sated. 1719 Young Busiris i. i, Artaxes' friends..Were swept away by banishment or death, In throngs and sated the devouring grave. 1791 Burke Corr. (1844) III. 303 When your curiosity is sated with the Rhine. 1840 Thirlwall Greece lvi. VII. 199 He had sated his vengeance. 1876 Merivale Rom. Triumvirates vii. 144 He..sated the populace with largesses. |
b. To surfeit or cloy by gratification of appetite or desire; to glut, satiate.
| 1602 Shakes. Ham. i. v. 56 So Lust, though to a radiant Angell link'd, Will sate it selfe in a Celestiall bed, & prey on Garbage. 1712 Steele Spect. No. 522 ¶1 They are immediately sated with Possession, and must necessarily fly to new Acquisitions of Beauty. 1719 Young Revenge iii. i, 'Twas time to get another, When her first fool was sated with her beauties. 1828 Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 161 Sated to nausea, as we have been with the doctrines of Sentimentality. 1833 Sir R. Peel in Croker Papers 29 Sept. (1884) II. 214, I saw some extracts from it in the newspapers, which sated my appetite for such reading. 1876 Black Madcap V. xv, Violet, who was not sated with the ordinary sights and occupations of London life, was enjoying herself thoroughly. |
c. To wear away through satiety. nonce-use.
| 1817 Byron Lament Tasso ii, Successful love may sate itself away, The wretched are the faithful. |
¶ d. intr. To pall (on). rare—1.
| 1794 A. M. Bennett Ellen III. 75 A passion, which..had no chance of sating on his imagination. |
e. intr. (for refl.). To become sated. rare.
| 1869 Browning Ring & Bk. IV. xi. 179 Let me turn wolf, be whole, and sate, for once. |
† 2. trans. To saturate. (Cf. satiate v. 3.) Obs.
| 1673 Ray Journ. Low C. 60 These Waters seemed to me more brisk and sprightly, and better sated with Mineral Juices than any I have tasted in England. 1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 26 The Banks of the Thame are so well sated with some kind of acid. 1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. Oxford 397 A spring strongly sated with a kind of salt. |
Hence ˈsating ppl. a.
| 1818 Byron Ch. Har. iv. clix, There is more In such a survey than the sating gaze Of wonder pleased. |
▪ II. sate, n. Blacksmithing.
(seɪt)
[Var. set n.1]
A heavy chisel or punch used for cutting metal. Cf. set n.1 33
| 1906 T. Moore Handbk. Pract. Smithing & Forging ii. 15 The cold sate..is a very simple tool in itself, and easy to make. Ibid. 17 The hot sate..is made in much the same way as the cold sate. 1942 W. H. Atherton Workshop Pract. (ed. 2) V. 198 Making two small holes..by slitting with the hot sate and opening out slightly..will widen the hole sufficiently to take a drift of the size required. 1962 [see set n.1 33]. |
▪ III. sate
see seat, set v.1, sit v.