quidditative (kwiditativ)

[ I dare vndertake Orlando Furioso, or honest King Arthur, and Prima materia, will hardely agree with a Corslet. quiet of a letter.-3. In biol., quietude or inactivity; a state of animal life approaching torpidity, but in which the animal is capable of some motion, and may receive food: it is observed among insects during either hibernation or pupation, and in many other animals both higher and lower in the scale than these.