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sitient

sitient adjective: thirsty.

Adjective

sitient (not comparable)

  1. (formal, rare) Thirsty.
    • So that (as I apprehend) theſe Famelick, Eſurient, and Sitient Spirits are not the Ferments product of Concoction in the Ventricle, but only incentives, ordained by nature to render us deſirous of Aliment, to repair the decaying frame of our Body.1685, Samuel Collins, “Of the Serous Ferment of the Stomach”, in A Systeme Of Anatomy, Treating of the Body of Man, Beasts, Birds, Fish, Insects, and Plants. […], volumes I (Containing the Parts of...
    • Oh, Christopher rheumatism doth not seem to have made thee less esurient or sitient, when the hospitality of Glasgow, or of other gormandizing and boozing places, is within thy reach.1820 December, letter from Leighton Buzzard to Christopher North, published in 1821 January, Semihorae Biographicae No. III, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 8, page 358

Origin of sitient

Borrowed from Latin sitiēns (“thirsting, thirsty”).

Questions about sitient

What does sitient mean?
Sitient means thirsty.
What part of speech is sitient?
Sitient is an adjective.

Words near sitient in the dictionary

  1. Sithney
  2. Sithole
  3. siths
  4. SITI
  5. Sitia
  6. sitient
  7. Sitimaxa
  8. sitinakite
  9. siting
  10. sitings
  11. sitio

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