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- English Word Sedentary Definition Inactive; motionless; sluggish; hence, calm; tranquil.
- English Word Sedentary Definition Caused by long sitting.
- English Word Sedentary Definition Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
- English Word Sederunt Definition A sitting, as of a court or other body.
- English Word Sedge Definition Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.
- English Word Sedge Definition A flock of herons.
- English Word Sedged Definition Made or composed of sedge.
- English Word Sedgy Definition Overgrown with sedge.
- English Word Sedilia Definition Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service.
- English Word Sediment Definition The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
- English Word Sediment Definition The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
- English Word Sedimental Definition Sedimentary.
- English Word Sedimentary Definition Of or pertaining to sediment; formed by sediment; containing matter that has subsided.
- English Word Sedimentation Definition The act of depositing a sediment; specifically (Geol.), the deposition of the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
- English Word Sedition Definition The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.
- English Word Sedition Definition Dissension; division; schism.
- English Word Seditionary Definition An inciter or promoter of sedition.
- English Word Seditious Definition Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words.
- English Word Seditious Definition Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens.
- English Word Sedlitz Definition Same as Seidlitz.
- English Word Seduce Definition To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.
- English Word Seduce Definition Specifically, to induce to surrender chastity; to debauch by means of solicitation.
- English Word Seduced Definition of Seduce
- English Word Seducement Definition The act of seducing.
- English Word Seducement Definition The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting.
- English Word Seducer Definition One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions.
- English Word Seducible Definition Capable of being seduced; corruptible.
- English Word Seducing Definition of Seduce
- English Word Seducing Definition Seductive.
- English Word Seduction Definition The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; specifically, the offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity.