Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Saturate

Saturate , transitive verb

[Latin saturatus, past participle of saturare to saturate, from satur full of food, sated. See Satire.]

1.
To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.
Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic. — Macaulay
Fill and saturate each kind With good according to its mind. — Emerson
2.
(Chemistry) To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine.

Saturate , past participle (adjectival)

[Latin saturatus, p. p.]

Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.
Dries his feathers saturate with dew. — Cowper
The sand beneath our feet is saturate With blood of martyrs. — Longfellow