All 5 Uses of
satiate
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.
p. 16.1satiate = satisfy
- If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.
p. 102.6satiated = filled to satisfaction
- I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge.†
p. 173.7insatiate = not possible to satisfystandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insatiate means not and reverses the meaning of satiate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- He had vowed TO BE WITH ME ON MY WEDDING-NIGHT, yet he did not consider that threat as binding him to peace in the meantime, for as if to show me that he was not yet satiated with blood, he had murdered Clerval immediately after the enunciation of his threats.
p. 193.6 *satiated = filled to satisfaction
- If thou wert yet alive and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better satiated in my life than in my destruction.
p. 225.4satiated = satisfied
Definition:
to satisfy a hunger; or fill to satisfaction (typically said of hunger for food, but can be said of anything desired--such as of knowledge or sensual pleasure)