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unˈsatisfied, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 and 5 b.]
1. Not satisfied in respect of something desired; not having obtained all that, or as much as, is wished for:
a. Predicatively, also const. with, † of.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 31 Thou tolde me, frende,..That thou kneuhest one..Unsatisfied a day in tymes twelfe. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. xviii. (1912) 457 So the more they strake, the more unsatisfied they were with striking. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. ii. 125 Rom. O wilt thou leaue me so vnsatisfied? Iuli. What satisfaction can'st thou haue to night? 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lx. §7 That the Church..should repell them and see them dye vnsatisfied of these their Ghostly Desires. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, iv. ii. 55 Though he were vnsatisfied in getting,..yet in bestowing..He was most Princely. 1685Dryden Lucretius iii. 155 Unsatisfy'd with all that Nature brings; Loathing the present, liking absent things. 1758–63Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) III. 41 His ambition was yet unsatisfied. 1808Mitford Hist. Greece IV. 457 They were unsatisfied with the composition of the appointed embassy. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt i, To feel a woman's hunger of the heart for ever unsatisfied. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 52 A warning to others of the dangers of being unsatisfied.
b. Attributively.
1611Shakes. Cymb. i. vi. 49 The Cloyed will: That satiate yet vnsatisfi'd desire. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 279 Casting their unsatisfied eyes upon his countenance, they gratefully reverenced that tender Age. a1704T. Brown Sat. agst. Woman Wks. 1730 I. 57 Raging with unsatisfy'd desire. 1757Foote Author i, You know the unsatisfied mind of man, no sooner is one object possessed, but another starts up. 1849Grote Greece ii. l. VI. 355 Bitter and as yet unsatisfied hatred against Platæa. 1871Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. Ser. i. (1878) 168 The deep unrest of unsatisfied souls.
2. Not satisfied in respect of information or knowledge; doubtful, dubious.
1575Churchyard Chippes 38 b, At whoes elloquence the heerars rather stoede astonyed than vnsatysfyed in any poynt or parssell. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. ii. 351 Report me and my causes right To the vnsatisfied. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 187 In submission to future information, we are unsatisfied unto great dubitation. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. ii. §25 Others were unsatisfied in the Authenticalness of the instrument, who never did..see the original. 1736Butler Anal. ii. viii. 384 It will yet leave the mind in a very unsatisfied state.
†b. Not certain of something. Obs.
1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 593 They mistrusted their Borders, and were unsatisfied of their more inward Garrisons.
3. Not satisfied with some circumstance, result, etc.; dissatisfied, displeased.
Common in latter half of the 17th cent.; now rare.
a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 526 Both Princes remained unsatisfied of the others actions. 1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox x. 253 Miestas [was] very unsatisfied with his Son's deportments. 1669Temple Let. to Trevor Wks. 1720 II. 202 He seemed a good deal unsatisfied that the Spanish Ambassador had received the Advice from England. 1731Gentl. Mag. I. 436 Fortune..declar'd that whoever was unsatisfied with their Lot should complain to her. 1795V. Knox Chr. Phil. vi. I. 57 When he is observed, he is ashamed; and when he has done, he is unsatisfied. 1883American VI. 250 Mr. Freeman is..unsatisfied with the review.
†b. Not satisfied by being paid. Obs.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 130 The short, and long is now no sight so unpleasant as their unsatisfied Doctor. 1796F. Burney Camilla ix. viii. V. 174 If they [sc. gamesters] were left unsatisfied, the credit of the young man would fall a sacrifice of their ill treatment.
4. Not settled by payment, etc.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. ii. i. 139 If then..your father will restore But that one halfe which is vnsatisfied, We will giue vp our right in Aquitaine. 1632in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 483 Howe the same debt was paid..and what is yet behinde and unsatisfied. 1682J. Scarlett Exchanges 114 Upon pain of forfeiture of twenty five Guilders, and the Bill to be accounted unsatisfied. 1763Act 4 Geo. III, c. i. 29 The Monies so remaining unsatisfied, or not discharged. 1879F. Hitchman Publ. Life Beaconsfield I. 182 He was deeply in debt, and had a number of unsatisfied judgments out against him.
Hence unˈsatisfiedly adv.
1661Boyle Style of Script. 172 Some of them,..after having Unsatisfiedly Travell'd thorough all sorts of Human Volumes, have Rested..only in these Divine Ones. |