satisfy ... curiosity• At least he had satisfied his curiosity.• Foucard had once gone to that door, thrown it wide, given the room an all-embracingglance, satisfied his curiosity.• If this is true, it seems an expensive way of satisfying one's curiosity.• Some came to seek the new power, some to chuckle, others to satisfy their curiosity.• Some of them I had never seen before and some were there to satisfy their curiosity.• We too need to read the Bible in our hearts, rather than simply to discover facts or satisfy our curiosity.• You still haven't satisfied my curiosity.• If you want to satisfy your curiosity about Bob's girlfriend, you ring him yourself.
satisfy yourself (that)• All we had to do now was satisfy ourselves that there was enough wreckage to warrant returning for a full-scale excavation.• No-one moved until she had quite satisfied herself.• She satisfied herself by pausing on the way to the conference to score it out.• He must therefore satisfy himself on a regularbasis that it does not constitute a statutorynuisance.• Decisionmakers should satisfy themselves that currentpractice is itself worth having before using it as a comparison for a new treatment.• One of these has not yet been published, so people are unable to satisfy themselves that its design is appropriate.• He decided against buying a ticket there and then but satisfied himself with getting a list of trains to Rome.• I satisfied myself with the knowledge that I would suffer far more from leaving him than he would suffer from my absence.
satisfied ... requirements• On 23 April 1991, information which satisfied the requirements of two of the four precepts in issue was produced.
Originsatisfy
(1400-1500)Old Frenchsatisfier, from Latinsatisfacere, from satis“enough” + facere“to make”