sate

«sate» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: sat — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

sat

part of speech

verb, past tense of sit

meaning for a pupil

To have sat down or been seated, in the past. tree →

how it differs from today

Old past form of sit, no longer used; today we say sat. (Today sate can also mean to satisfy someone fully, which these sentences do not use.)

examples

• So down she sate; I suppose she wept. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• ‘Somebody has been sitting in my chair, and has sate the bottom of it out!’ (The Green Fairy Book) tree →
• “Somebody has been sitting in my chair and has sate the bottom out of it!” (English Fairy Tales) tree →

primary record

sate

tests

manual 6; corpora 15 (Torah 0, tales 15, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 1; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• For my soul is sated with troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
• Be gracious unto us, O LORD, be gracious unto us; for we are full sated with contempt.
• Our soul is full sated with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud oppressors.
• Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour's house; lest he be sated with thee, and hate thee.
• He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.