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Webster 1913 Edition

Saturate

Sat′u-rate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Saturated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Saturating
.]
[L.
saturatus
, p. p. of
saturare
to saturate, fr.
satur
full of food, sated. See
Satire
.]
1.
To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.
Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow
saturated
with the moisture of the Atlantic.
Macaulay.
Fill and
saturate
each kind
With good according to its mind.
Emerson.
2.
(Chem.)
To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold;
as, to
saturate
phosphorus with chlorine
.

Sat′u-rate

,
p.
Adj.
[L.
saturatus
, p. p.]
Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.
Dries his feathers
saturate
with dew.
Cowper.
The sand beneath our feet is
saturate

With blood of martyrs.
Longfellow.

Webster 1828 Edition

Saturate

SAT'URATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. saturo, from satur, filled; satio, to feed to the full. See Sate.]
1.
To impregnate or unite with, till no more can be received. Thus an acid saturates an alkali, and an alkali saturates an acid, when the solvent can contain no more of the dissolving body.
2.
To supply or fill to fullness.

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