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/sˈætəsfˌaɪd/ /sˈætɪsfˌaɪd/ Listen

verb

Satisfy v. t. (past & past part. satisfied; pres. part. satisfying)

In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for. "Death shall... with us two Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw."

To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor.

To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution.

To free from doubt, suspense, or uncertainty; to give assurance to; to set at rest the mind of; to convince; as, to satisfy one's self by inquiry. "The standing evidences of the truth of the gospel are in themselves most firm, solid, and satisfying."

Synonyms: To satiate; sate; content; grafity; compensate. See Satiate.

Satisfy v. i.

To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desired.

To make payment or atonement; to atone.

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Etymology of 'Satisfied'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Satisfied" Quotes from Famous Books

... hers at all. Yet why lower the altars of the sane goddess because her shrine was deserted? Health was health, though all the women of England were confirmed invalids. And with nothing less ought reasonable creatures to be satisfied. As for taking enfeeblement as a natural dispensation, she would as soon regard ...

— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird

... from which all its truth and force should operate. His soul must possess a marvelous and surpassing nobleness and divine power, because it is his function perfectly to realize in life the ancient religion, the requirements of which no one has yet satisfied, and that, too, with that spiritual glorification which the great prophets had announced. Unless there first comes some one who shall transfigure this religion into its purest form, it will never be perfected, and its kingdom will never come. But ...

— Who Wrote the Bible? • Washington Gladden

... than with the sordidness of crime. He must have been an observer of the most acute perceptions, and while in many cases it was only minor crimes of which he dealt, the vagaries of his assassins are unequalled in fiction. He was generally satisfied with ordinary methods, as with the case of Lawyer Tulkinghorn's murder in Lincoln's Inn Fields, but even in this scene he does throw into crime something more than the ordinary methods of the English novelist. He had the power, one might almost say the Shakespearian power, ...

— Dickens' London • Francis Miltoun

... expression of general satisfaction, I have rarely witnessed. On every side you saw people shaking hands, congratulating each other, and forming dinner parties for the evening; and nothing was to be heard but triumphant challenges of—"Well! will this do?" "Is this the right thing?" "Are you satisfied at last?" But, in the midst of this, I remember we all grew silent on hearing the old cynical amateur, L. S——, that laudator temporis acti, stumping along with his wooden leg; he entered the room with his usual scowl, and, as he advanced, he continued to growl and stutter ...

— Miscellaneous Essays • Thomas de Quincey

... saying to myself every day," he continued, "Isn't it a pity that nobody should see them? But now I feel satisfied." ...

— With Those Who Wait • Frances Wilson Huard

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