satirist 
by those kinde of preachings, whereupon the Poets inuen- 
tours of the deuise were called Satyristes. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie (ed. Arber), p. 46. 
I laugh, and glory that I have 
The power, in you, to scourge a general vice, 
And raise up a new satirist. 
Massinger, City Madam, iv. 4. 
The clergy, when they appeared in public, wore always 
both cassock and gown ; with the wig, of course, which 
was sometimes carried to excess, when it brought down 
the ridicule of the satirist. 
J. Ashton, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, II. 124. 
satirize (sat'i-riz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. satirized, 
ppr. satirizing. [< F. satiriser = Sp. satirizar 
= Pg. satirizar, satyrisar = It. sutiriggiare ; as 
xatire + -ize.~\ To assail with satire ; make the 
object of satire or censure ; expose to censure 
or ridicule with sarcastic wit. Also spelled 
satirise. 
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices 
as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. Sw(ft. 
satiryt, A Middle English variant of satyr 1 . 
satisfaction (sat-is-fak'shon), n. [< ME. satis- 
faccioun, < OF. satisfaction, satisfactiun, satis- 
facion, F. satisfaction = Pr. satisfactio = Sp. 
satisfaction = Pg. satisfacqa'o = It. satisfazione, 
soddisfazione, < L. satisfactio(n-), satisfaction, 
< satisfacere, pp. satisfactus, satisfy: see satis- 
fy.] 1. The act of satisfying, or of fully sup- 
plying or gratifying wants or wishes ; full com- 
pliance with demands; fulfilment of condi- 
tions. 
Hate to vow'd enemies 
Finds a full satisfaction in death. 
And tyrants seek no farther. 
Fletcher (and another 1\ Prophetess, ii. 2. 
When the blessed Virgin was so ascertained that she 
should be a mother and a maid, ... all her hopes and 
all her desires received . . . satisfaction. 
Jar. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835X I. 28. 
In theology, the doctrine of satisfaction is the doctrine 
that the sufferings and death of Christ satisfied the re* 
quirements of God's Justice, and thus prepared the way for 
the forgiveness of sins. The word does not occur in this 
sense in the Scriptures. 
They dispute the satisfaction of Christ, or rather the 
word satisfaction, as not Scriptural ; but they acknowledge 
him both God and their Saviour. Milton, True Religion. 
This faith had in the third century not yet been devel- 
oped into the form of a strict theory of satisfaction, in the 
sense that the sufferings of Christ were a punishment 
necessarily inflicted by divine justice, and assumed in the 
place of the sinner, whereby the justice of God was strict- 
ly satisfied. 
Hagenoach, Hist. Christian Doctrine (trans.), p. 180. 
2. Extinguishment of an obligation or claim 
by payment, or by surrender or concession of 
something accepted as equivalent to payment; 
quittance. 
You know since Pentecost the sum is due, . . . 
Therefore make present satisfaction. 
Shalt., C. ofE.,iv. 1.5. 
To the king, 
To whom I stand accountable for the loss 
Of two of his lov'd subjects' lives, 111 oifer 
Mine own in satisfaction. 
Fletcher (and Massinger ?), Lovers' Progress, v. 1. 
3. Compensation; reparation; atonement. 
For the preseruation of their countray they [the Decii] 
auowed to die, as it were in a satisfaction for all their 
countray. Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, ii. 4. 
The pain that I here suffer in my flesh is to keep the 
body under, and to serve my neighbour, and not to make 
Kite/action unto God for the fore sins. 
Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., I860), p. 143. 
Satisfaction is a work which justice requireth to be done 
for contentment of persons injured. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, vi. 5. 
She caused her Gallogrsecians to cut off his head, which 
she carried to her husband, in satisfaction of her wrong. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 322. 
You have discharg'd 
The true part of an honest man ; I cannot 
Request a fuller satisfaction 
Than you have freely granted. 
Ford and Dek'ker, Witch of Edmonton, i. 1. 
4. The state of being satisfied ; a gratified or 
contented feeling or state of mind ; tranquillity 
resulting from gratified desire; content; grati- 
fication. 
It would have been some satisfaction to have seen by 
the Pictures what the middle Ages, at least, had thought 
of them [animals]. Lister, Journey to Paris, p. 108. 
Like lubberly monks we belabor our own shoulders, and 
take a vast satisfaction in the music of our own groans. 
Ining, Knickerbocker, p. 238. 
Is it not the way of men to dwell with satisfaction on 
their good deeds, particularly when, for some reason or 
other, their conscience smites them? 
J. H. Newman, Parochial Sermons, i. 77. 
The quiet pleasures, ... as, for example, the satisfaction 
of maternal love. J. Sully, Sensation and Intuition, p. 34. 
5. Means or opportunity of repairiuga supposed 
wrong done to one's honor, as by duel, or, in 
place of it, by apology and reparation ; the ac- 
ceptance by the aggressor of a challenge to 
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single combat with the aggrieved person, or the 
hostile meeting which ensues. 
It is called " giving a man satisfaction " to urge your of- 
fence against him with your sword. 
Steele, Taller, No. 25. 
A case of satisfaction pistols, with the satisfactory ac- 
companiments of powder, ball, and caps, having been 
hired from a manufacturer in Rochester, the two friends 
returned to their inn. Dickens, Pickwick, ii. 
6. Eccles., part of the sacrament of penance. 
See penance Accord and satisfaction. See ac- 
cord, 5. Satisfaction piece, an instrument by which 
the holder of a mortgage or a creditor by judgment, etc., 
certifies that it has been paid, in order to procure an entry 
to be made on the official record of the heir, that it has 
been satisfied. Satisfaction theory of the atone- 
ment. See atonement, 3 (a). = Syn. 1. Atonement, Ex- 
piation, etc. See propitiation. 2 and 3. Recompense, 
amends, remuneration, requital, payment. 4. Content- 
ment, etc. (see contentment)', pleasure, enjoyment. 
satisfactive (sat-is-fak'tiv), a. and . [< satis- 
fact(ion) + -we.] I. a. Giving satisfaction ; 
satisfactory. [Rare.] 
A final and satisfactive discernment of faith. 
Sir T. Browne. 
Il.t n. An act of satisfaction; compensation; 
requital; amends. 
satisfactorily (sat-is-fak'to-ri-li), adv. In a 
satisfactory manner ; so as to give satisfaction. 
They strain their memory to answer him satisfactorily 
unto all his demands. Sir K. Digby. 
satisfactoriness(sat-is-fak'to-ri-nes), . Sat- 
isfactory character or state ; the power of sat- 
isfying or contenting : as, the satisfactoriness 
of successful ambition. 
The incompleteness of the seraphlck lover's happiness 
in his fruitions proceeds not from their want of satisfac- 
torinctis, but his want of an entire possession of them. 
Boyle. 
satisfactory (sat-is-fak'to-ri), a. and n. [< F. 
satisfactoire = Sp. Pg. satisfactorio = It. satis- 
fattorio, < ML. "satisfactorius, satisfactory, < 
L. satisfacere, pp. satisfactus, satisfy: see sat- 
*///] I. 1- Affording satisfaction; satis- 
fying; that fully gratifies or contents; fulfil- 
ling all demands or requirements : as, to make 
satisfactory arrangements ; to give a satisfac- 
tory account; a satisfactory state of affairs. 
I can conceive no religion as satisfactory that falls short 
of Christianity. J. R. Seeley, Nat Religion, p. 24. 
The oldest land plants of which any satisfactory remains 
have yet been found are those of the upper Silurian. 
Daicson, Nature and the Bible, p. 107. 
2. Making reparation, atonement, or expiation ; 
expiatory. 
A most wise and sufficient means of ... salvation by 
the satisfactory and meritorious death and obedience of 
the incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ. Bp. Sanderson. 
To resemble his [Christ's] whole satisfactory office all the 
lineage of Aaron was no more than sufficient. 
Milton, Church-Government, i. 5. 
Satisfactory evidence. See evidence. =Syn. 1. Gratify- 
ing, pleasing, sufficient, convincing, conclusive, decisive. 
Il.t A place or means of atonement or 
retribution. 
To punish a man that has forsaken sin of his own ac- 
cord is not to purge him, but to satisfy the lust of a ty- 
rant ; neither ought it to be called purgatory, but a jail of 
tormenting, and a satisfactory. 
Tj/ndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1860), p. 143. 
satisfiable (sat'is-fi-a-bl), a. [< satisfy + -able.'] 
Capable of being satisfied. 
satisfier (sat'is-fi-er), n. A person or thing that 
satisfies or gratifies. 
satisfy (sat'is-fi), v.; pret. and pp. satisfied, ppr. 
satisfying. [Early mod. E. satisfie, satisfye, sat- 
ysfye, < OF. satisfier, sateffier (< ML. as if "satis- 
ficare), also satisfaire, F. satisfaire = Pr. satis- 
far = Sp. satisfacer = Pg. satisfazer = It. satis- 
fare, < L. satisfacere, satisfy, content, pay or 
secure (a creditor), give satisfaction, make 
amends, prop, two words, satisfacere, make or 
do enough: satis, enough; facere, make, do: 
see sate 2 and fact.'] I. trans. 1. To supply or 
gratify completely; fulfil the wishes or desires 
of; content: as, , to satisfy hunger or thirst; to 
satisfy one's curiosity or one's expectations. 
I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes 
With the memorials and the things of fame 
That do renown this city. Shak., T. N., iU. 3. 22. 
But though it pleased them to have him exposed to all 
the ignominies imaginable, yet nothing would satisfie them 
but his blood. StiUingfleet, Sermons, I. vi. 
The sports of children satisfy the child. 
Goldsmith, Traveller, 1. 164. 
The Christian conqueror did not seek the extermination 
of his conquered enemies ; he was satisfied with their po- 
litical subjection. E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 149. 
2. To comply with; discharge fully ; liquidate; 
pay; hence, to requite; remunerate; recom- 
pense: as, to satisfy the claims of a creditor; 
to satisfy one for service rendered. 
sative 
We thought our selues now fully satisfied for our long 
toile and labours. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 37. 
I purpose to write to your brother Stephen, and press 
him to satisfy those two debts. 
Wiathrap, Hist. New England, II. 430. 
These Indians did us good service, especially in pilot- 
ing us to an Island where we killed Beef when ever we 
wanted ; and for this their service we satisfied them to their 
hearts content. Dampier, Voyages, I. 128. 
A grave question . . . arose, whether the money . . . 
should be paid directly to the discontented chiefs, or 
should be employed to satisfy the claims which Argyle 
had against them. Macaulay. 
" But, Laird,' said Jeanie, "though I ken my father will 
satisfy every penny of this siller, whatever there 'so' 't, yet 
I wadna like to borrow it frae ane that maybe thinks of 
something mair than the paying ' 't back again." 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xxvi. 
3. To make reparation or amends for; atone 
for; expiate : as, to satisfy a wrong. 
In flesh at first the guilt committed was, 
Therefore in flesh it must be satisfyde. 
Spenser, Hymn of Heavenly Love, 1. 142. 
I must have life and blood, to satisfy 
Your father's wrongs. 
/;'". and Fl, Knight of Burning Pestle, iii. 1. 
If any of his men did set traps in our jurisdiction, etc , 
they should be liable to satisfy all damages. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 19. 
4. To assure or free from doubt, uncertainty, 
or suspense ; convince ; also, to set at rest, as a 
doubt : as, to satisfy one's self by inquiry. 
I will be satisfied ; let me see the writing. 
SAo*.,Rich. II., v. 2.68. 
He [the Pope] was well mlisfy'd that this War in Ger- 
many was no War of Religion. Unwell, Letters, I. vi. 8. 
I am pretty well satisfied such a passion as I have had 
is never well cured. Steele, Spectator, No. 118. 
Revelation was not given us to satisfy doubts, but to 
make us better men. 
J. II. Kewman, Parochial Sermons, i. 229. 
5. To fulfil the conditions of; answer: as, an 
algebraical equation is said to be satisfied when, 
after the substitution of particular expressions 
for the unknown quantities which enter it, the 
two members are equal. =Syn. 1. Content, Satisfy, 
Satiate, Sate, Surfeit, Cloy. To content a person is to give 
him enough to keep him from being disposed to find fault 
or repine ; to satisfy him is to give him just the measure of 
his desires (see contentment) ; to satiate him is to give him 
so much that he cannot receive, desire, or enjoy more, 
and would be disgusted at the idea of more ; to surfeit him 
is to give him more than enough ; to cloy him is to fill 
him to the point of loathing ; sate is the same as satiate, 
but less popular and more rhetorical. The last four words 
of the list are applied primarily to food. 
Shall I confess my fault, and ask your pardon? 
Will that content you? 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, iv. 1. 
He finds reason in all opinions, truth in none : Indeed 
the least reason perplexes him, and the best will not sat- 
isfie him. 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Scepticke in Religion. 
What could satiat the desires of this Man, who, being 
King of England, and Maister of almost two Millions 
yearely, was still in want? Milton, Eikonoklastes, xi. 
One glass insensibly leads on to another, and, instead 
of sating, whets the appetite. 
Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, Iviii. 
The doors are open ; and the surfeited grooms 
Do mock their charge with snores : I have drugg'd their 
possets. . Shale., Macbeth, it 2. 6. 
Both satisfied with deepe delight. 
And cloyde with al content. 
Gascoiffne, Philomene, Steele Glas, etc. (cd. Arber, p. 92). 
II. intrans. 1. To give satisfaction or con- 
tentment: as, earthly good never satisfies. 
This would not satisfy, but they called him to answer 
publicly. Winthrop, Hist New England, I. 260. 
In other hours, Nature satisfies by its loveliness, and 
without any mixture of corporeal benefit. 
Emerson, Nature, iii. 
2. To make requital, reparation, or amends; 
atone. 
satisfying (sat'is-fl-ing), p. a, 1. Giving or 
fitted to give satisfaction or gratification. 
You know Scriptur' tells about bein' filled with the east 
wind; but I never found it noways satisfyin' it sets 
sort o' cold on the stomach. H. B. Stuwe, Oldtown, p. 77. 
One quick spring, 
One great good satisfying gripe, and lo ! 
There had he lain abolished with his lie. 
Browning, Ring and Book, 1. 310. 
2. Fitted to dispel doubt and uncertainty; 
convincing; satisfactory. 
The standing evidences of the truth of the gospel are In 
themselves most nrm, solid, and satisfying. 
Bp. Atterbury. 
satisfyingly (sat'is-fi-ing-li), adv. So as to 
satisfy; satisfactorily. 
sative (sa'tiv), a. [= Sp. Pg. It. satico, < L. sati- 
vits, that is sown or planted, < severe, pp. satus, 
sow, plant: seesation.] Sown, as in a garden. 
Preferring the domestick ormKre for the fuller growth. 
Evelyn, Sylva, II. ii. 4. 
