Saie vs Sate - What's the difference?
saie | sate |
* {{quote-book, year=1594, author=Thomas Nash, title=The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton, chapter=, edition=
, passage=What stratagemicall actes and monuments do you thinke an ingenious infant of my age might enact? you will saie , it were sufficient if he slurre a die, pawne his master to the vtmost pennie, & minister the oath on the pantoffle arteficially. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1602, author=William Shakespeare, title=The Merry Wives of Windsor, chapter=, edition=
, passage=By the Lord thou art a traitor to saie so: What made me loue thee? }}
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To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
* Macaulay
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
(dated) (sit)
As verbs the difference between saie and sate
is that saie is an archaic spelling of lang=en while sate is to satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.As a noun sate is
satay.saie
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sate
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* (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
From earlier sate, . More at (l).Verb
(sat)- At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated .
- crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities
- And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.
Usage notes
Used interchangeably with, though less common than, satiate.“Monthly Gleanings: November 2011]: Sate'' versus ''satiated''.”, ''[http://blog.oup.com/ OUPblog
