c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iii. 185 [They] mynystre vnto thenhabitauntes of the contrey foyson and grete plentie of theire vsuall fode, by whos passyng saciable repaste they repress plenarly theire hungrye apetites.

1580 A. Saker Narbonus i. 75 Yet my wordes..might haue beene more freendly, and my sayinges more satiable: my words more pleasauntly pronounced, and my dooings more daintely deuised.

1592 R. Greene Philomela sig. F^v 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.

1652 J. Jones Every Mans Case 22 A Gentleman mercifull and affable to the poor, satiable and unburthensom to the Rich, compassionate, and comfortable to all his prisoners.

1536 J. Gwynneth Confut. Fyrst Parte Frythes Boke sig. a.v Therfore as ye shall not fynde me satiable w^tout reason: so ye shal not fynde me to refuse it, when it is purposed on to me.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ai^v/2 Satiable, satiabilis.

1681 T. Frankland Ann. King James & King Charles I 30/2 The hearts of Princes once dilated with Affection, cannot be satiable in the exercise of any narrow Bounty or little Affection.

1739 Man Superior to Woman ii. 18 Her taste is as little nice as her Appetite is never sated nor satiable.

?1792 Abstr. Evid. Select Comm. House of Commons Abol. Slave-trade (ed. 2) 230 The Whites and People of Colour burning with a fury hardly satiable but by the extirpation of each other.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab vii. 96 War, Scarce satiable by fate's last death-draught.

1864 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 25 ii. 346 There are some soils which swallow up manure, with, so to speak, no satiable appetite.

1911 S. J. Chapman Outl. Polit. Econ. iv. 35 From the fact that the marginal utility of a commodity may subside to zero..it does not follow that human wants in their entirety are within measurable distance of being satiated or are indeed satiable.

1978 N.Y. Times 24 Dec. v. 3/1 Winning is like drinking salt water. It's never satiable.

2012 Sunday Times (Nexis) 21 Oct. (Business section) 12 Beijing's supposed insatiable need for raw materials appears to be satiable after all.

1561 T. Blundeville tr. Plutarch Three Morall Treat. sig. G.ii^v Yet do we continually accuse our selues, and with vnthankful satiablenes vexe and greue our selues..except we maie bee chief, so well amongst the riche as also among thelloquent.

1882 J. Cowden-Cole Bride & Bridegroom 89 Those Who day and night with parched desire which knows No satiableness..Moan out their cry to Him who mercy shows.

1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. Satiableness, same as satiability. [Also in later dictionaries.]

1580 A. Saker Narbonus i. 38 Narbonus had learned his stop Galiarde, and could as satiably sooth, as soberly solace, for hee payd for his practise, and lent liberally, for small vsury.

1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 226 The daily Labouring Man sells both his strength, his time, and his ease, for that alone which will not satiably content his craving Belly.

2002 USA Today (Nexis) 18 Sept. 11 a I watched Sunday's premiere of The Sopranos, and, yes, I was satiably entertained.

1900 R. Kipling in Ladies' Home Jrnl. Apr. 3/1 There was one Elephant..—an Elephant's Child—who was full of 'satiable curtiosity [sic], and that means he asked ever so many questions.

1907 Washington Post 5 Aug. 11/ When ‘kiddie’ saw some wasps hanging over a wet spot between tracks in the terminal station his ‘satiable curiosity’ couldn't be kept under.

1912 Logansport (Indiana) Times 13 Sept. Women have been blessed with that ‘satiable curtiosity’ ever since our mother Eve bit that apple long ago.

1929 Theatre Arts Monthly July 550 Out of the inferiority complexes of the amateur [actor], good may come... He has a satiable desire to learn.

1963 ‘L. Egan’ Run to Evil i. 6 Talk about the Elephant's Child... Nobody could really dislike the Brandon boy, even with his 'satiable curiosity.

2008 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Sept. (Mag.) 26 Let's go settle the matter of Tess's 'satiable curiosity.