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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Insatiabil(l, Insaciabil(l, a. Also: insasiable and -abyll, -able. [ME. insaciable (Hoccleve), e.m.E. insatiable, OF. insaciable, L. insatiābilis.] Insatiable.(a) c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxvi. 92 (M).
Gluttery With wame insaciable & gredy 1513 Doug. iii. vi. 126.
Insaciabil Carybdys 1531 Bell. Boece II. 108.
He was comparit justly to ane insaciabil pule Ib. 121.
Insaciabill drunkettis c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5044.
[Man's soul] is so insaciabyll 1564 Reg. Privy C. I. 288.
The insaciabil cupiditie of dalie askaris(b) a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 527.
Sodomyte insatiable 1540 Lynd. Sat. 4504.
Insatiabill merchant men 15.. Clar. ii. 1868.
With thrist of love so wode and insatiabill 1558-66 Knox II. 408.
The insatiable crewaltie of the Papistis 1568 Lyndsay Pref.
The cruell, bludie & insatiabil hartis of the memberis of Antichrist(c) 1492 Myll Spect. 286/28.
Hir lechorus insasiable desyris