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abounding with scurrility. Ennius and Lucilius corrected 
its grossness; and at last Horace brought it into that form, 
which now gives the denomination to satirical writing. As 
the manners and characters which occur in ordinary life are 
the subjects of satires, as well as epistles, they require to be 
treated with somewhat of the ease and freedom of conversa¬ 
tion, or in a more familiar style than solemn philosophical 
poetry; hence it is commonly the “ Musa pedestris” which 
reigns in such compositions. See Poetry. 
SATI'RIC, or Sati'rical, ad). [satiricus, Lat.] Be¬ 
longing to satire; employed in writing of invective. 
What human kind desires, and what they shun. 
Rage, passions, pleasures, impotence of will, 
Shall this satirical collection till. Dry den. 
Censorious; severe in language.—Slanders, sir: for the 
satirical slave says here, that old men have grey beards; 
that their faces are wrinkled. Skakspearc. 
SATI'RICALLY, adv. With invective; with intention 
to censure or vilify.—He applies them satirically to some 
customs, and kinds of philosophy, which he arraigns. 
Dry den. 
SATIRIST, s. One who writes satires. 
Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay; 
His anger moral, and his wisdom gay : 
Blest satyrist! who touch’d the mean so true. 
As show’d vice had his hate and pity too. Pope. 
To SA'TIRIZE, v. a. [satirizer, Fr.] To censure as in 
a satire.—Should a writer single out and point his raillery at 
particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be 
sure of pleasing a great part of his readers, but must be a 
very ill man if he could please himself. Addison. 
SAT1SDATO, or Stipueatio, in the Roman Law, an¬ 
swers to our bail above, and was mutually given by each 
litigant party to the other; by the plaintiff', that he would 
prosecute his suit, and pay the costs if he lost his cause, in 
like manner as our law still requires nominal pledges of pro¬ 
secution from the plaintiff; and by the defendant, that he 
would continue in court and abide the sentence of the judge, 
much like our special bail, with this difference, that th e fide 
jussores were there absolutely bound, judicatum solvere, to 
see costs and condemnation paid at all events; as our special 
bail may be discharged by surrendering the defendant into 
custody, within the time ordered by law; for which purpose 
they are at all times entitled to a warrant to apprehend him. 
SATISFACIENDUM, Capias ad. See Capias. 
SATISFA'CTION, s. [satisfactio, Lat.; satisfaction, 
Fr.] The act of pleasing to the full, or state of being 
pleased.—Run over the circle of earthly pleasures, and had 
not God secured a man a solid pleasure from his own 
actions, he would be forced to complain that pleasure was 
not satisfaction. South. —The act of pleasing.—The mind, 
having a power to suspend the execution and satisfaction 
of any of its desires, is at liberty to consider the objects of 
them. Locke. —The state of being pleased.—’Tis a wretched 
satisfaction a revengeful man takes, even in losing his life, 
provided his enemy-go for company. L'Estrange. —Re¬ 
lease from suspense, uncertainty, or uneasiness; conviction. 
Wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied ? 
—What satisfaction can you have ? Shakspearc. 
Gratification; that which pleases. 
Of every nation each illustrious name. 
Such toys as these have cheated into fame; 
Exchanging solid quiet to obtain 
The windy satisfaction of the brain. Dryden. 
Amends; atonement for a crime; recompense for an in¬ 
jury- 
Die he or justice must; unless for him 
Some other able, and as willing, pay 
The rigid satisfaction, death for death. Milton. 
Satisfaction, in Law, is used for the giving of recom¬ 
pense for an injury done; or the payment of money due on 
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bond, judgment, &c. In which last it must be entered dll 
record. 
SATISFA'CTIVE, ad), [satisfactus, Lat.] Giving satis¬ 
faction.—By a final and satisfactive discernment of faith, 
we lay the last effects upon ‘the first cause of all things. 
Brown. 
SATISFACTORILY, adv. So as to content.—Bellonius 
hath been more satisfactorily experimental, not only affirm¬ 
ing that chameleons feed on flies, but upon exenteration he 
found these animals in their bellies. Brown. 
SATISFA'CTORINESS, s. Power of satisfying; power 
of giving content.—The incompleatness of the seraphick 
lover’s happiness in his fruitions, proceeds not from their 
want of satisfactoriness, but his want of an entire posses¬ 
sion of them. Boyle. 
SATISFACTORY, ad). [ satisfactus , I,at.] Giving 
satisfaction; giving content. — An intelligent American 
would scarce take it for a satisfactory account, if, desiring 
to learn our architecture, he should be told that a pillar was 
a thing supported by a basis. Locke. —Atoning; making 
amends.—A most wise and sufficient means of redemption 
and salvation, by the satisfactory and meritorious death 
and obedience of the incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ. 
Sanderson. 
SA'TISFIER, s. One who makes satisfaction.—For the 
transgressions of man, man ought to make satisfaction ; but 
he could not. God could; but he ought not. And there¬ 
fore, that he might satisfy both that ought and could, it was 
fit that the satisfier should be God and man. Sheridan. 
To SATISFY, v. a. [ satisfacio, Lat.] To content; to 
please to such a degree as that nothing more is desired.—A 
good man shall be satisfied from himself. Proverbs. —I’m 
satisfy'd. My boy has done his duty. Addison. —To feed 
to the full.—Who hath caused it to rain on the earth, to 
satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud 
of the tender tree to spring forth ? Job. —To recompense; 
to pay to content. 
He is well paid that is well satisfied; 
And I, delivering you, am satisfied. 
And therein do account myself well paid. Shakspeare. 
To appease by punishment. 
Will he draw out. 
For anger’s sake, finite to infinite, 
In punish’d man, to satisfy his rigour, 
Satisfy’d never ? That were to extend 
His sentence beyond dust and Nature’s law. Milton. 
To free from doubt, perplexity, or suspense.—Of many 
things useful and curious you may satisfy yourselves in 
Leonardo de Vinci. Dryden. —To convince.—When come 
to the utmost extremity of body, what can there put a stop 
and satisfy the mind that it is at the end of space, when it 
is satisfied that body itself can move into it ? Locke. 
To SATISFY, v. n. To give content.— ; To feed to the 
full.—To make payment.—By the quantity of silver they 
give or take, they estimate the value of other things, and 
satisfy for them -. thus silver becomes the measure of com¬ 
merce. Locke. 
SATIVA, a settlement of South America, in the New 
Kingdom of Granada, and province of Tunja. The 
inhabitants, amounting to 1000, are much afflicted with a 
swelling of the throat; 106 miles north-east of Santa F£.— 
There is another settlement of the same name in this 
province. 
SA'TIVE, adj. [sativus, Lat.] Sown in gardens.—Pre¬ 
ferring the domestic or sative for the fuller growth. Evelyn. 
SATNICO, a small but trading town in the north of 
Austrian Italy, situated on the Oglio, where it issues from the 
lake of Iseo ; 14 miles north-west of Brescia. 
SATOGA, or Montreal, a river of Canada, which runs 
into the St. Lawrence; 10 miles above Montreal. 
SA'TRAP, s. [Persian ; o-afpcMnjj, Gr. satrapes, satraps , 
satrapa, Lat.] A governor of a district; a kind of viceroy; 
a nobleman in power.-—His majesty took the petition with a 
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