Middle English Dictionary Entry
saciāten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | saciāten v. Also (error) sucyat; p.ppl. saciat(e. |
| Etymology | From L satiātus, p.ppl. of satiāre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To fill (sb.) to repletion; sate (the appetite, malice, wicked desire, etc.); (b) to be filled (with joy); ~ with, fill (the world) with (charity); ben saciat with (of), be filled with (God's plenty); be too full of (desires); (c) to satisfy (desire, the soul) spiritually.
Associated quotations
a
- (1440) Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)1881 : His appetitz..Is not saciate but if þat he may dreyn The flood of Iordan into his þrote.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)403/17 : Þer was suche a gude savur emang þaim at þai war saciatt & fulfyllid þer-with as it had bene with meate or drynk.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)11.718 (v.1:p.125) : But yit was not al her wickidnesse saciate and fulfilled.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)82.176 (v.2:p.92) : The secund signe of fulnesse is no more to receiven but to be saciat, for whan a vessel is ful of licour it may no more receiven.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)97.61 (v.2:p.120) : Her malice not so saciat, they tookyn his body and shett it in a webbe of lede.
b
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)9528 : I, lord, wyth þi fulsumnesse sacyat shal be Thanne whanne þi ioye shal appere to me.
- c1450 Treat.Perf.(Add 37790)234/18 : Burnynge loue of the euerlastynge worde hase sacyate alle the worlde with charite.
- c1450 Treat.Perf.(Add 37790)253/3 : Good men..with open and clere eyen the goodly sonne in his clerenesse..beholde, and thay sacyate with the ioye of god.
- (c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)27/5 : In þis tyme myth neuyr his soule be saciat or fulfillid of good desires.
c
- c1450 Treat.Perf.(Add 37790)250/23 : Sprynges in vs a glad abydynge desyre frome god..so that ȝif god gaffe vs alle thynge owtsepte hymselfe, ȝit thay may not suffice to sucyat [read: sacyat] the desyre.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)311 : My soull ys well sacyatt Wyth þe mellyfluose doctryne of þis worschyppfull man.