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[Fr., from Lat. sed i mentum = a settling, subsidence, from se deo to sit, to settle; Sp. & Ital. sedimento.] (Chester ton, Oxon.) 1. Ord. Lang .: The matter which subsides or settles to the bottom of water or any other liquor; lees; dregs, settlings. "A sort of water with a yellow sediment at the bottom."-Cook: Third Voyage , bk. iii., ch. viii. 2. Geol .: Earthy or other matter which, after having for a time been suspended or held in solution in water, is deposited at the bott on. It is proо "A sedentary life, appropriate to all students, crushes duced wherever there is water in motion, and the the bowels."-Harvey: On Consumptions. *4. Caused by sitting much. IMG:content-1153.png:[blocks in formation] Zool.: Any spider of the Sedentarie (q. v.). *sedentary-annelids, s. pl. Zool .: The Sedent aria of Latreille. [TUBICOLOUS ANNELIDS.] sě-dër-unt, s. [Prop. the third pers. pl. perf. indic. of sedeo = to sit, and lit.=they sat.] A term employed chiefly in minutes of the sittings of courts, to indicate that such and such members were present at the sitting. Thus, sederunt A, B, C, D, ., signifies that A, B, C, D, ., were present, and composed the meeting. Hence, it is extended to mean a sitting or meeting of a court, and in a still more extended sense a more or le formal meeting or sitting of any a ociation, society, company, or body of men. "An a ociation met at the Baron d'Holbach's; there had its blue light sederunts , and published transactions." -Carlyle: E ays, Diderot .