| 单词 |
unsatisfiable |
| 释义 |
unˈsatisfiable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
1. Incapable of being satisfied.
1539Taverner Gard. Wysd. ii. 26 Onles thou haddest bene an euell man & with money unsatisfyable. 1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. To Friends, Aduisedly weigh..the impossible satisfaction of vnsatisfiable expectation. 1648Gage West Ind. 76 An unsatisfiable minde and greedy covetousnesse. 1680C. Nesse Church Hist. 60 Their envy and ambition are restless and unsatisfiable. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xxvi. Wks. (1834) 545/1 Well-directed tastes and desires, compared with the dominion of..unsatisfied, and unsatisfiable passions. 1896Duke of Argyll Philos. Belief 544 The unsatisfied, and apparently unsatisfiable, desires of men.
†2. For which no satisfaction can be made. Obs.
1593G. Harvey New. Let. B 3 b, The more notorious the offence, and the more vnsatisfiable the Iniurie was. 1648Symmons Vind. Chas. I, 166 Until we have quite destroyed him, whom we hate,..for those unsatisfiable wrongs, which ourselves have done him.
Hence unˈsatisfiableness, -ably adv.
1647Trapp Comm. 1 John ii. 17 There is a curse of *unsatisfiablenesse lies upon the creature. 1664N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. vi. 350 [Appetites which] do gall the Soul by a ravenous unsatisfiableness.
1652N. Culverwel Lt. Nature ii. 70 The Hart pants *unsatisfiably after the water-brooks. |
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