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单词 satiable
释义 satiable, a.1|ˈseɪʃɪəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. *satiābil-is, f. satiāre to satiate: see -able.]
1. That can be satiated.
1570Levins Manip. 3 Satiable, satiabilis.1813Shelley Q. Mab vii. 217 War, Scarce satiable by fate's last death-draught.1864Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XXV. ii. 346 There are some soils which swallow up manure, with, so to speak, no satiable appetite.
2. ? Satisfactory, plausible. (Cf. satisfiable a.)
1592Greene Philomela Wks. (Grosart) XI. 156 Though my wife returned a taunting letter to him openly, yet she might send him sweete lines secretlye: her satiable answere, was but a cloak for the rayne.
Hence ˈsatiableness rare—0. ˈsatiably adv., so as to satiate.
1627–8Feltham Resolves ii. xxi. Wks. (1677) 205 The daily Laboring Man sells both his strength, his time, and his ease, for that alone which will not satiably content his craving Belly.1882Ogilvie, Satiableness.
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