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語源

From Late 中期英語 insaciate, insaciat, insacyate (“insatiable”), from Latin insatiātus, from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + satiātus (“satisfied; having been satisfied”) (perfect passive participle of satiō (“to satisfy”), from satis (“enough; filled; plenty”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, satisfy”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪnˈseɪ.ʃɪət/, /ɪnˈseɪ.ʃɪ.ət/
• (General American) IPA: /ɪnˈseɪ.ʃɪt/, /ɪnˈseɪ.ʃi.ɪt/
• ハイフネーション: in‧sa‧tiate, in‧sa‧ti‧ate

形容詞

insatiate (comparative more insatiate, superlative most insatiate)

1. (archaic or literary) That is not satiated; insatiable.

   Antonyms: satiable, satisfiable

   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     Light vanitie inſatiate cormorant, / Conſuming meanes ſoone praies vpon it selfe: […]

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 5–10:

     Satan exalted ſat, by merit raiſ'd / To that bad eminence; and from deſpair / Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aſpires / Beyond thus high, inſatiate to pursue / Vain Warr with Heav'n, and by ſucceſs untaught / His proud imaginations thus diſplaid.

   • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, pages 49–50:

     I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge.

   • 1878, John Addington Symonds, “Le Jeune Homme Caressant sa Chimère. For an Intaglio.”, in Many Moods: A Volume of Verse, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 36:

     A boy of eighteen years mid myrtle-boughs / Lying love-languid on a morn of May, / Watched half-asleep his goats insatiate browse / Thin shoots of thyme and lentisk, by the spray / Of biting sea-winds bitter made and grey: […]

   • 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter V.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC, page 240:

     that mode of manning the fleet, a mode now fallen into a sort of abeyance but never formally renounced, it was not practicable to give up in those years. Its abrogation would have crippled the indispensable fleet, […] a fleet the more insatiate in demand for men, because then multiplying its ships of all grades against contingencies present and to come of the convulsed Continent.

   • 1980, Peter De Vries, chapter 5, in Consenting Adults, or The Duchess Will Be Furious, London: Penguin, →ISBN, page 69:

     Then again the heaving bosom of the Mediterranean, clothes strewn along the shore, running naked into the sea while wind-exported Andalusian odors spice the insatiate night!

派生語

• insatiately
• insatiateness

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