Both Uses of
sate
in
Don Quixote
- "Get up, Sancho," said Don Quixote at this; "I see that fortune, 'with evil done to me unsated still,' has taken possession of all the roads by which any comfort may reach 'this wretched soul' that I carry in my flesh.†
Chpt 2.9-10unsated = not satisfiedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsated means not and reverses the meaning of sated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- For as he lay in bed on the night of the seventh day of his government, sated, not with bread and wine, but with delivering judgments and giving opinions and making laws and proclamations, just as sleep, in spite of hunger, was beginning to close his eyelids, he heard such a noise of bell-ringing and shouting that one would have fancied the whole island was going to the bottom.†
Chpt 2.53-54 *
Definition:
to indulge a hunger; or fill to satisfaction