Definitions for satis

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satis sa·ti

Spelling: [suh-tee, suht-ee]

IPA: /sʌˈti, ˈsʌt i/

Satis is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in satis (aisst).

Definitions for satis

noun

1. a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
2. a Hindu widow who so immolates herself.
3. the wife of Rudra, who immolated herself following a quarrel between her father and her husband.

Origin of satis

First recorded in 1780-90, sati is from the Sanskrit word satī good woman, woman devoted to her husband

Examples for satis

But, satis superque, we have had almost enough of ships and the sea.

It is in things more serious than a play, that it may be truly said, satis est equitem mihi plaudere.

A person may have worked affatim, according to his own opinion, and yet not satis.

Tres in titulo crucis consecratæ sunt; satis illæ erant, cum Christus moreretur; sed pluribus nobis opus est ut intelligatur.

Quem cum cohors uniuersa conspexisset, satis nequibat admirari, ut quid elinguis uelut orationi gestus informaret.

Jam satis terr nivis, etc., may well be taken up as the song of eighteen hundred and sixteen.

Bene, satis, male,— Where was I with my trope 'bout one in a quag?

satis edisti, satis bipisti, satis lusisti, tempus est tibi abire—what am I raving about?

Non aboleas eam totam (the Latin mass): satis est alicubi miscere Germanicas cantationes.

Nefandam hujus insignis Bibliothec sortem (ignosce just indignationi) satis deplorare nequeo.