单词 | unsatiable |
释义 | unsatiableadj. Now rare. Of persons, desires, etc.: Insatiable. (Common c1540–1675.) ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > uneasy or restless desire > [adjective] > unsatisfied > insatiable unfillinga1300 unfillablea1340 unsatiable1382 insatiablea1420 insaturablec1425 unstanchable1426 insatiate1509 unsatiate1528 unsaturable1535 unquenchable1538 unsatisfiable1539 quenchless1557 unpleasable1561 inexpleble1569 slakeless1596 abarstic1623 sateless1628 unexpliable1658 voracious1712 omnivorous1791 unslakable1820 appeaseless1837 unsatable1850 'satiable1900 (a) (b)c1440 J. Shirley Cron. Dethe James Stewarde 28 All mene saye that the unsacionable [sic] covetise was the..cause of the Kynges dethe.1533 Fabyans Cronycle (new ed.) I. ccxxiiii. f. cxlix The vnsaceable [1516 vnsacrable] couetous of Ranulphe.1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judith Contents ii The vnsaciable desyre that Nabuchodonosor had to raigne.1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue To Rdr. p. ivv Vnsatiable greadines.1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §47 That essence, whose infinite goodnesse is able to terminate the desires of it selfe, and the unsatiable wishes of ours. View more context for this quotation1693 N. Mather in J. Owen 2 Disc. Holy Spirit Pref. sig. A3v An unsatiable Desire to do Service to Christ.1810 Monthly Mag. 29 321 His hate [is] unsatiable, where he mistrusts.(c)1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. h i They are the divels fornace, Oven infernall vnsaciable.1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks (ed. 3) 375 An unsatiable Gulf which swallows all, and gives up nothing again.1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Baruch iv. 15 He brouȝte vpon hem..a folc vnsaciable. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 523 With mony we sall fyll þine vnsaciable harte. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 148 Sum wald tak all this warldis breid..Throw hairt vnsatiable. a1540 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 342/1 Beecause you bee..vnsaciable belly Gods. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §70. 311 To them that are unsatiable in sin. 1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 21 When any unsatiable Wretch..resolves to inclose many thousand Acres of Ground. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < adj.1382 |
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