Unsatisfiable

a. [UN-¹ 7 b.]

  1.  Incapable of being satisfied.

1539.  Taverner, Gard. Wysd., II. 26. Onles thou haddest bene an euell man & with money unsatisfyable.

1593.  G. Harvey, Pierce’s Super. To Friends, Aduisedly weigh … the impossible satisfaction of vnsatisfiable expectation.

1648.  Gage, West Ind., 76. An unsatisfiable minde and greedy covetousnesse.

1680.  C. Nesse, Church Hist., 60. Their envy and ambition are restless and unsatisfiable.

1802.  Paley, Nat. Theol., xxvi. Wks. (1834), 545/1. Well-directed tastes and desires, compared with the dominion of … unsatisfied, and unsatisfiable passions.

1896.  Dk. Argyll, Philos. Belief, 544. The unsatisfied, and apparently unsatisfiable, desires of men.

  † 2.  For which no satisfaction can be made. Obs.

1593.  G. Harvey, New. Let., B 3 b. The more notorious the offence, and the more vnsatisfiable the Iniurie was.

1648.  Symmons, Vind. Chas. I., 166. Until we have quite destroyed him, whom we hate,… for those unsatisfiable wrongs, which ourselves have done him.

  Hence Unsatisfiableness, -ably adv.

1647.  Trapp, Comm. 1 John ii. 17. There is a curse of *unsatisfiablenesse lies upon the creature.

1664.  Ingelo, Bentiv. & Ur., VI. 350. [Appetites which] do gall the Soul by a ravenous unsatisfiableness.

1652.  N. Culverwel, Lt. Nature, II. 70. The Hart pants *unsatisfiably after the water-brooks.