2 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
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)
- Slowly it floats more and more away, the water round it torn and splashed by the insatiate sharks, and the air above vexed with rapacious flights of screaming fowls, whose beaks are like so many insulting poniards in the whale.Chapters 67-69 — Cutting In; The Blanket; The Funeral (84% in)
- Thou saw'st the murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw; and his murderers still sailed on unharmed—while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to outstretched, longing arms.Chapters 70-72 — The Sphynx; The Jeroboam's Story; The Monkey-Rope (15% in)
There are no more uses of "satiate" in Moby Dick.
Typical Usage
(best examples)