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Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire. "Insatiable of glory." Milton.

t be satisfied or appeased; insatiability. The eye of the covetous hath a more particular insatiableness. Bp. Hall.

A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.

A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoëthes scribendi, "The itch for writing". Addison.

To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite. Once one may crave for love. Suckling.

One who is hungry or greedy. [R.] An insatiable esurient after riches. Wood.

An insatiable thing or person. That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure. Marston.

The state or quality of being insatiable; insatiableness. Eagerness for increase of possession deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulfs of insatiability. Rambler.

In an insatiable manner or degree; unappeasably. "Insatiably covetous." South.

Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst. The insatiate greediness of his desires. Shak. And still insatiate, thirsting still for blood. Hook.

Insatiableness. T. Grander.

ced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation. Other men's insatiable desire of revenge hath wholly beguiled both church and state of the benefit of all my either retractions or Eikon Basilike.

Insatiable. [R.] Young.

Unquenchable; insatiable. [Obs.] Shak.

Insatiable. [Obs.] Hooker. -- Un*sa"ti*a*ble*ness, n. [Obs.] -- Un*sa"ti*a*bly, adv. [Obs.]