Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR SATES
Henceforth Egyptian civilization runs an uninspired and undeveloping course till the days of the Sates and the Ptolemies.
When we were gone, the ould people had more room, and they moved about on the sates we had left them.
WORD ORIGIN
"to satisfy, surfeit," c.1600, alteration (by influence of Latin satiare "satiate") of Middle English saden "become satiated; satiate," from Old English sadian "to satiate, fill; be sated, get wearied," from Proto-Germanic *sadon "to satisfy, sate," from root *sa- "to satisfy" (see sad (adj.)). Related: Sated; sating.