Also sat verbum. [See note to prec.] A phrase used to conclude a statement, implying that further explanation or comment is unnecessary or unadvisable.
In the first quot. perhaps equivalent to prec.
1649. Evelyn, Corr. (1850), III. 49. Against which [conquest] I find most men inclined to oppose, by a juncture with the new Commonwealth. Verbum sat —.
1668. in Extr. St. P. rel. Friends, III. (1912), 277. Ile say they are not of ye brood of ye old Presbiterian. verbum sat.
1838. Thackeray, Misc. Ess. (1885), 129. Verbum sat—this naughty ‘Somnolency’ ought to go to sleep in her night-gown.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., II. xix. 195. The thing can be done, and we did it: sat verbum.
