sedant (sedant)

sitting: see sedent, sejant. sedate (sē-dāt'), a. [= It. sedato, The Italians, notwithstanding their natural fierine of temper, affect always to appear sober and sedate . Add is on , Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bohn, I. 373). He was about forty-eight-of a sedate look, something approaching to gravity. Sterne , Sentimental Journey, p. 78. A mind Of composition gentle and sedate , And, in its movements, circumspect and slow. Words worth, Excursion, vi. When he touched a lighter string, the tones, though pleasingly modulated, were still sedate . Gifford , Introd. to Ford's Plays, p. 1. = Syn. Imperturbable, serious, staid. sedatet, .t . [ sedate , a.] To calm; compose. To sedate these contests. Dr. John Owen , Works, VIII., [pref., p. 48. (N. and Q.) Collateral, heritable, personal security. See the adsedately (se-dat'li), adv . In sedate manner; Tennyson , Maud, xii. 4. jectives. Infeftment in security. See infeftment. calmly; serenely; without mental agitation. To go security, See go. To marshal securities. See marshall . She took the ki sedately , The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-0497.jpg:[blocks in formation] She sits unmoved, and freezes to a stone. But still her envious hue and sullen mien Are in the sedentary figure seen. That seek yon pool, and there prolong their stay In silent congre . Words worth, Excursion, iv. a rotifer, polyp, cirriped, mollusk, ascidian, etc.; specifi- cally, belonging to the Sedent aria . (5) Encysted and mo- tion le or quiescent, as a protozoan. Compare resting- spore . 2. Accustomed to sit much, or to pa most of the time in a sitting posture; hence, secluded. But, of all the barbarians, this humour would be least seen in the Egyptians: whose sages were not sedentary scholastic sophists, like the Grecian, but men employed and busied in the public affairs of religion and govern- ment. War burton , Divine Legation, iii. § 4. 3. Characterized by or requiring continuance in a sitting posture: as, a sedentary profe ion; the sedentary life of a scholar. Sedentary and within-door arts, and delicate manufac- tures (that require rather the finger than the arm), have in their nature a contrariety to a military disposition. II. n.; pl. sedentaries (-riz). 1. A sedentary person; one of sedentary habits.-2. A mem- ber of the Sedentariæ ; a sedentary spider. sederunt (sē-dē'runt). [Taken from records orig. kept in Latin: L. sederunt , 3d pers. pl. perf. ind. of sedere , sit: see sedent .] 1. There sat: a word used in minutes of the meetings of courts and other bodies in noting that such and such members were present and composed the meet- ing: as, sederunt A. B., C. D., etc. (that is, there sat or were present A. B., C. D., etc.). Hence -2. n. A single sitting or meeting of a court; also, a more or le formal meeting or sitting of any a ociation, society, or company of men. Tis a pity we have not Burns's own account of that long sederunt. J. Wilson. That fable... of there being an A ociation... which met at the Baron D'Holbach's, there had its blue- light sederunts , and published Transactions, was and remains nothing but a fable. sedes vacans (sēdēz vā'kanz). [L.: sedes , a seat; vacans , ppr. of vacare , be vacant: see va- pal or an episcopal see when absolutely vacant. sedg sedgel (sej), (sej), n. [Also dial. (common in early mod. E. use) seg ; segge , segg , secg IMG:content-0498.jpg:[blocks in formation] segge, sedge, lit. leaves; MLG. LG. MD. segghe 'cutter,' so called from the shape of the leav IMG:content-0499.jpg:[blocks in formation] seg , sag , cut: see saw1 . Cf. Ir. seasg , W. hesg, sedge. For the sense, cf. E. sword- gra ; F. glaïeul , gladiolus , a small sword, sword-lily, flag (see gladiolus ) schwertel , sword-lily, schwertel - gras , sedge, IMG:content-0500.png:[blocks in formation] schwert , a sword.] A plant of the genus Carex , an extensive genus of gra -like cyperaceous plants. The name is thence extended, especially in the plural, to the order Cyperaceæ , the sedge family. In pop- ular use it is loosely comprehensive of numerous flag- like, rush-like, or gra y plants growing in wet places. See Carex and Cyperacea . The meads, the orchards, and the primrose-lanes, Instead of sedge and reeds, bear sugar-canes. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 185. No more thy gla y brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges , works its weedy way. IMG:content-0501.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0502.png:[merged small][merged small][graphic] IMG:content-0503.jpg:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors] 5462 The hope of impunity is a strong incitement to sedition ; the dread of punishment, a proportionably strong discouragement to it. A. Hamilton , Federalist, No. 26. Sedition Act. See alien and sedition laws , under alien . =Syn. Rebellion , Revolt , etc. See insurrection . Sedum The vicious examples of ages past poison the curiosity of these present, affording a hint of sin unto seducible spirit a. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vii. 19. seducingly (sē-dū'sing-li), adv. In a seducing or seductive manner. IMG:content-0504.jpg:[graphic] dition + -ary.] I. a. Pertaining to sedition; seditious. II. n.; pl. seditionaries (-riz). An inciter or promoter of sedition. A seditionary in a state, or a schisma tick in the church, is like a sulphureous fiery vapour in the bowels of the earth, able to make that stable element reel again. Bp . Hall , Remains, p. 71. seditious (se-dish'us), a. [Early mod. E. also sedicious; This sedicious conspiracye was not so secretly kept, nor so closely cloked. Hall , Henry IV., an. 6. We weaken the Reins of the Government of our selves sediment (sed'i-ment), n. [OF. sediment , F. sédiment =Sp. Pg. It. sedimento , sed i mentum , a settling, subsidence, sedere , sit, settle, = E. by not holding them with a stricter hand, and make our sit: see sit.] The matter which settles to the bottom of water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs; in geol., detrital material mechanically suspended in or deposited from water; the material of which the sedimentary rocks are composed. It is not bare agitation, but the sediment at the bottom, that troubles and defiles the water. South , Sermons. In recent years it has been attempted to calculate the amounts of sediment worn off by various great rivers from the surface of the regions drained by them. J. Fiske , Evolutionist, p. 18. Pa ions more seditious and turbulent by letting them alone. Stilling fleet, Sermons, III. vii. It was enacted "that such as imagined or spoke any seditious or scandalous news, rumours, sayings, or tales of the King or the Queen should be set upon the pillory if it fortuned to be said without any city or town corpo rate." Strype , Memorials, Queen Mary, an. 1554. 2. Engaged in sedition; guilty of sedition; exciting or promoting sedition: as, seditious per sons. While they lived together in one city, their numbers exposed them to the delusions of seditious demagogues. J. Adams , Works, IV. 496. =Syn. Incendiary. See insurrection. Later i ceo us sediment. See later i ceo us . sed i mental (sed-i-men'tal), a. -al .] Pertaining to or of the nature of sediment or dregs. For if the ratified and azure body of this lower heaven be folded up like a scroll of parchment, then much more this dro y, feculent, and sed i mental earth shall be burnt. Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 336. sedimentary (sed-i-men'ta-ri), a. [= F. sédi mentaire; as sediment + -ary.] In geol., formed by deposition of materials previously held in suspension by water: nearly synonymous with aqueous. A rock is ma ive when it has no structure indicating an aqueous origin; it is sedimentary when its appearance indicates that it is made up of the detritus of other rocks, eroded and carried away by watery currents, to be deposited in another place. All sedimentary rocks are made up of the fragments of the original crust of the earth, of eruptive materials which have come up through this crust from below, or of other sedimentary beds which, having been deposited, have again in their turn been subjected to erosion and redeposit i on. It is in sedimentary rocks that organic remains are found; in the original crust of the earth, or in volcanic materials, traces of life could not be expected to occur. - Sedimentary cataract, a soft cataract, in which the denser parts have subsided.