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Saturate

verb

(past & past part. saturated; pres. part. saturating)

Cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance.

Infuse or fill completely. Synonym: impregnate.

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"Saturate" Quotes from Famous Books

... to saturate her torn, thin night-gown and lie like frost on her body; and she crept to the door of her ...

— A Young Man in a Hurry - and Other Short Stories • Robert W. Chambers

... complained; though oft with tears He mourned the oppression of his helpless brethren; Yea with a deeper and yet holier grief Mourned for th' oppressor; but this In sabbath hours—a solemn grief, Most like a cloud at sunset, Was but the veil of purest meditation, Pierced through and saturate with the intellectual rays ...

— The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 • James Gillman

... been called a "hidden God," for man could never find him with his senses only. Look at outer things around you, you will find nothing divine. Exert your reason, you may be able to detect the laws by which things appear and disappear, but even your reason will not show you anything divine. Saturate your imagination with religious feeling, and you may be able to create images which you may take to be gods, but your reason will pull them to pieces, for it will prove to you that you created them yourself, and borrowed ...

— Christianity As A Mystical Fact - And The Mysteries of Antiquity • Rudolf Steiner

... was thoroughly popular and practicable: not to save his soul could he have drawn one long Gothic line in sound as Bach could, much less have woven several of them together with so apt a harmony that even when the composer is unmoved its progressions saturate themselves with the emotion which (as modern critics are a little apt to forget) springs as warmly from our delicately touched admiration as from our sympathies, and sometimes makes us give a composer credit for pathetic ...

— The Perfect Wagnerite - A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring • George Bernard Shaw

... been well soaked in vaseline, the solution should then be introduced into the wounds from an irrigator every two hours. A stopcock should be put on the tube and only sufficient solution should be allowed to enter the wound to completely saturate all parts of the wound. In other words, the wounds should be bathed with the solution every two hours—do not mistake this and irrigate continuously. You can easily tell how much solution it takes to keep the ...

— A Journey Through France in War Time • Joseph G. Butler, Jr.

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