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Satire vs Sative - What's the difference?

satire | sative |

As a noun satire

is a literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. Humour, irony and exaggeration are often used to aid this.

As an adjective sative is

sown or planted; propagated by seed, shoot, or root; cultivated, not wild.

satire

English

(wikipedia satire)

Noun

  • (uncountable) A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules]] its subject often as an intended means of [[provoke, provoking or preventing change. Humour, irony and exaggeration are often used to aid this.
  • (countable) A satirical work.

    • Derived terms

    * satiric, satirical * satirically * satirist

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    sative

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (both obsolete)

    Adjective

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  • (label) Sown or planted; propagated by seed, shoot, or root; cultivated, not wild.
  • * 1599 , Henry Buttes, Dyets Drie Dinner , P4b:
    • Tabacco… Translated out of India in the seed or roote; Natiue or satiue in our own fruitfullest soiles.
  • * 1664 , (John Evelyn), (third edition, 1679), page 2:
    • These [trees] we shall divide into the greater and more ceduous…and such as are sative and hortensial.
  • * 1725 , Bradley’s Family Dictionary , “Pine”:
    • The wild Pine differs no otherwise from the Sative .

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    References

    * '' VIII (Q–Sh; 1st ed.), part ii (S–Sh; 1914), page 124/1, “ †Sa·tive, ''a. ” ----