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Satisfactorily

Satisfactory \Sat`is*fac"to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. satisfactoire.]

  1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.

  2. Making amends, indemnification, or recompense; causing to cease from claims and to rest content; compensating; atoning; as, to make satisfactory compensation, or a satisfactory apology.

    A most wise and sufficient means of redemption and salvation, by the satisfactory and meritorious death and obedience of the incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ.
    --Bp. Sanderson. [1913 Webster] -- Sat`is*fac"to*ri*ly, adv. -- Sat`is*fac"to*ri*ness, n.

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satisfactorily

adv. In a satisfactory manner, in a manner adequate to requirements.

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satisfactorily

adv. in a satisfactory manner [ant: unsatisfactorily]

Usage examples of "satisfactorily".

This duty has been, under existing circumstances, satisfactorily performed, in part at least, by authorizing the issue of United States notes, receivable for all government dues except customs, and made a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except interest on public debt.

It is now pretty satisfactorily established that the circumvallate, or fungiform papillae are the only ones concerned in the special sense of taste.

Everything being satisfactorily arranged, I forced upon Madame Orio a payment of fifteen sequins in advance, assuring her that I was rich, and that I had made a very good bargain, as I should spend a great deal more if I kept my room at the inn.

I am to return for her in two weeks when the new housekeeper has been trained satisfactorily.

For checking older ages, use was made of the carbon-14 value of layers of mud found in deep sea core samples, which corresponded satisfactorily with age-checks found by the radioactivity of ionium method.

Yull and Omber dismissed such shows as trivial, and paid far more attention to experiments with a practical application: gradient separation of similar organic molecules, for instance, and the use of rotating pull-stones to prove that the fields they generated were intimately related to sparkforce, though as yet nobody had satisfactorily explained how.

But with all these external differences I am aware that there will be objection to classifying it as a separate species, unless the osteological divergences can be satisfactorily determined, and for this purpose it would be necessary to examine a large series of authenticated skulls of the two kinds.

For some reason, the humans who make these stereos neglect almost completely the senses of taste, brotch, pressure and griggoalthough the olfactory appeal stimulates an approximation of taste and an alert individual may brotch satisfactorily during an emotional sequence.

Knowing nothing of the Arisians, or of what they had done to raise the level of intelligence of mankind, he assumed that the then completely ruined Earth would not require his personal attention again for many hundreds of Tellurian years, and went elsewhere: to Rigel Four, to Palain Seven, and to Velantia Two, or Delgon, where he found that his creatures, the Overlords, were not progressing satisfactorily.

An excess of the chromate is required to complete the reaction, so that the point at which an indicator shows the presence of undecomposed chromate cannot be satisfactorily taken as the finish.

However, the fact that the Warwickshire fellow wrote the plays is most satisfactorily proved on the strength of an applejohn and a pale primrose.

His tired, fumbling mind jumped to the subject of behavioristic psychology and its fundamental assertion that human reactions can be explained completely and satisfactorily without once referring to consciousness -- that it need not even be assumed that consciousness exists.

But whether it can ever be satisfactorily demonstrated that the Norse explorers came in contact with Algonquin, Micmac, or Beothuk Indians, and just where they landed, are not matters of essential importance.

European experience in the Great War showed that a simple blowback weapon with a heavier bolt would do quite satisfactorily.

Some of the dogs, however, were not sharp enough to complete the course satisfactorily.