(a) 1382. Wyclif, Baruch iv. 15. He brouȝte vpon hem … a folc vnsaciable.
c. 1440. Alph. Tales, 523. With mony we sall fyll þine vnsaciable harte.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xvii. 38. Sum wald tak all this warldis breid,… Throw hairt vnsatiable.
a. 1540. Barnes, Wks. (1573), 342/1. Beecause you bee … vnsaciable belly Gods.
1631. Gouge, God’s Arrows, III. § 70. 311. To them that are unsatiable in sin.
1684. Burnet, trans. More’s Utopia, 21. When any unsatiable Wretch … resolves to inclose many thousand Acres of Ground.
(b) c. 1440. J. Shirley, Dethe K. James, 28. All mene saye that the unsacionable [sic] covetise was the … cause of the Kynges dethe.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VII. ccxxiv. 251. The vnsaceable couetous [sic] of Ranulph.
1535. Coverdale, Judith, Contents ii. The vnsaciable desyre that Nabuchodonosor had to raigne.
1579. W. Wilkinson, Confut. Fam. Love, To Rdr. p. iv b. Vnsatiable greadines.
1643. Sir T. Browne, Relig. Med., I. § 47. That essence, whose infinite goodnesse is able to terminate the desires of it selfe, and the unsatiable wishes of ours.
1692. N. Mather, Pref. Owen’s Disc. Holy Sp. (1693), A 3 b. An unsatiable Desire to do Service to Christ.
1810. Monthly Mag., XXIX. 321. His hate [is] unsatiable, where he mistrusts.
(c) 1528. Roy, Rede me (Arb.), 102. They are the divels fornace, Oven infernall vnsaciable.
1691. trans. Emilianne’s Frauds Rom. Monks (ed. 3), 375. An unsatiable Gulf which swallows all, and gives up nothing again.
