the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Satisfy
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(a.) 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.
(2):
(a.) 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.
(3):
(a.) To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor.
(4):
(a.) 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.
(5):
(v. i.) To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desired.
(6):
(v. i.) To make payment or atonement; to atone.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Satisfy'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/satisfy.html. 1828.
