sate
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Is sate a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of sate?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.Examples: "At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated."; "crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities"; "Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome."Synonyms: satiate, fill uptransitive
verb (English)
1. (dated, poetic) simple past of sitExamples: "So saying, she sate down at a little distance upon the bench on which Allan M‘Aulay was placed, and tuning her clairshach, a small harp, about thirty inches in height, she accompanied it with her voice."; "[…] And easy, smiling, seasoned sound, / Sate the king when healths went round."datedform-ofpastpoetic
2. (dated, poetic) past participle of sitExamples: "[…] and I am old enough to remember how often I have seen the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire, about eight in the morning (when I was at Bath in 91 or 92), returning from the parade, where she had sate up the live-long night with her sister, Lady Duncannon; it can therefore be no disgrace to appear as if you felt for your daughter."datedform-ofparticiplepastpoetic
Definition source: Wiktionary