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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SATE, v.t. [L. satio. The primary sense is to stuff, to fill, from crowding, driving.]
To satiate; to satisfy appetite; to glut; to feed beyond natural desire.
While the vultures sate their maws with full repast.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: fill to satisfaction; "I am sated" [syn: satiate, sate, replete, fill]

Merriam Webster's

I. archaic past of sit II. transitive verb (sated; sating) Etymology: probably by shortening & alteration from satiate Date: 1579 1. to cloy with overabundance ; glut 2. to appease (as a thirst) by indulging to the full Synonyms: see satiate

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 gratify (desire, or a desirous person) to the full. 2 cloy, surfeit, weary with over-abundance (sated with pleasure). Derivatives: sateless adj. poet. Etymology: prob. f. dial. sade, OE sadian (as SAD), assim. to SATIATE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sate Sate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sated; p. pr. & vb. n. Sating.] [Probably shortened fr. satiate: cf. L. satur full. See Satiate.] To satisfy the desire or appetite of; to satiate; to glut; to surfeit. Crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities. --Macaulay.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sate Sate, imp. of Sit. But sate an equal guest at every board. --Lowell.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sat Sat, imp. of Sit. [Written also sate.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sit Sit, v. i. [imp. Sat(Sate, archaic); p. p. Sat (Sitten, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Sitting.] [OE. sitten, AS. sittan; akin to OS. sittian, OFries. sitta, D. zitten, G. sitzen, OHG. sizzen, Icel. sitja, SW. sitta, Dan. sidde, Goth. sitan, Russ. sidiete, L. sedere, Gr. ???, Skr. sad. [root]154. Cf. Assess,Assize, Cathedral, Chair, Dissident, Excise, Insidious, Possess, Reside, Sanhedrim, Seance, Seat, n., Sedate, 4th Sell, Siege, Session, Set, v. t., Sizar, Size, Subsidy.] 1. To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground. And he came and took the book put of the right hand of him that sate upon the seat. --Bible (1551) (Rev. v. 7.) I pray you, jest, sir, as you sit at dinner. --Shak. 2. To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc. 3. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition. And Moses said to . . . the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here? --Num. xxxii. 6. Like a demigod here sit I in the sky. --Shak. 4. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; -- with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him. The calamity sits heavy on us. --Jer. Taylor. 5. To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill. This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, Sits not so easy on me as you think. --Shak. 6. To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 7. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. --Jer. xvii. 11. 8. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction. Like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits. --Selden. Sits the wind in that quarter? --Sir W. Scott. 9. To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress. 10. To hold a session; to be in session for official business; -- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in January; the aldermen sit to-night. 11. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. See satiate.

Moby Thesaurus

allay, appease, assuage, cloy, cram, engorge, feast, feed, fill, fill up, glut, gorge, gratify, jade, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, pall, quench, regale, satiate, satisfy, saturate, slake, stall, stodge, stuff, supersaturate, surfeit