Saturnian verse(Pros.), a meter employed by early Roman satirists, consisting of three iambics and an extra syllable followed by three trochees, as in the line: — The queen | was in | the kitch | en || eating | bread and | honey.

1. The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.

2. (Chem.) The act, process, or result of saturating a substance, or of combining it to its fullest extent.

3. (Optics) Freedom from mixture or dilution with white; purity; — said of colors.

The degree of saturation of a color is its relative purity, or freedom from admixture with white.

Saturator
(Sat"u*ra`tor) n. [L.] One who, or that which, saturates.

Saturday
(Sat"ur*day) n. [OE. Saterday, AS. Sæterdæg, Sæterndæg, Sæternesdæg, literally, Saturn's day, fr. L. Saturnus Saturn + AS. dæg day; cf. L. dies Saturni.] The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday.

Saturity
(Sa*tu"ri*ty) n. [L. saturitas, fr. satur full of food, sated.] The state of being saturated; fullness of supply. [Obs.] Warner.

Saturn
(Sa"turn) n. [L. Saturnus, literally, the sower, fr. serere, satum, to sow. See Season.]

1. (Roman Myth.) One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Cœlus and Terra and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.

2. (Astron.) One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.

3. (Alchem.) The metal lead. [Archaic]

Saturnalia
(Sat`ur*na"li*a) n. pl. [L. See Saturn.]

1. (Rom. Antiq.) The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.

2. Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence.

Saturnalian
(Sat`ur*na"li*an) a.

1. Of or pertaining to the Saturnalia.

2. Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute. "Saturnalian amusement." Burke.

Saturnian
(Sa*tur"ni*an) a. [L. Saturnius.]

1. (Roman Myth.) Of or pertaining to Saturn, whose age or reign, from the mildness and wisdom of his government, is called the golden age.

2. Hence: Resembling the golden age; distinguished for peacefulness, happiness, contentment.

Augustus, born to bring Saturnian times.
Pope.

3. (Astron.) Of or pertaining to the planet Saturn; as, the Saturnian year.


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