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unˈsatiable, a. Now rare.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
Of persons, desires, etc.: Insatiable. (Common c 1540–c 1675.)
(a)1382Wyclif Baruch iv. 15 He brouȝte vpon hem..a folc vnsaciable. c1440Alph. Tales 523 With mony we sall fyll þine vnsaciable harte. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xvii. 38 Sum wald tak all this warldis breid,..Throw hairt vnsatiable. a1540Barnes Wks. (1573) 342/1 Beecause you bee..vnsaciable belly Gods. 1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §70. 311 To them that are unsatiable in sin. 1684Burnet tr. More's Utopia 21 When any unsatiable Wretch..resolves to inclose many thousand Acres of Ground.
(b)c1440J. Shirley Dethe K. James 28 All mene saye that the unsacionable [sic] covetise was the..cause of the Kynges dethe. a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxiv. 251 The vnsaceable couetous [sic] of Ranulph. 1535Coverdale Judith Contents ii, The vnsaciable desyre that Nabuchodonosor had to raigne. 1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love To Rdr. p. iv b, Vnsatiable greadines. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §47 That essence, whose infinite goodnesse is able to terminate the desires of it selfe, and the unsatiable wishes of ours. 1692N. Mather Pref. Owen's Disc. Holy Sp. (1693) A 3 b, An unsatiable Desire to do Service to Christ. 1810Monthly Mag. XXIX. 321 His hate [is] unsatiable, where he mistrusts.
(c)1528Roy Rede me (Arb.) 102 They are the divels fornace, Oven infernall vnsaciable. 1691tr. Emilianne's Frauds Rom. Monks (ed. 3) 375 An unsatiable Gulf which swallows all, and gives up nothing again. |