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▪ I. sedate, a.|sɪˈdeɪt|
[ad. L. sēdāt-us, pa. pple. of sēdāre to settle, allay, make calm or quiet, f. root sē̆d- as in L. sēdēre: see sit v.]
1. Calm, quiet, composed; cool, sober, collected; undisturbed by passion or excitement.
a. of a person, his disposition, temper, deportment, actions.
1693Locke Educ. §86. 100, I think the Chastisement should be a little more Sedate, and a little more Severe. 1700Dryden Fables Pref. ⁋5 Virgil was of a quiet, sedate Temper. 1704Swift Tale of Tub vi. 131 Millions of Stitches, that required the nicest Hand and sedatest Constitution to extricate. 1718Free-thinker No. 17. 113 A Man of Publick Spirit and Sedate Courage. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ. II. 50 (Le Pâtissier) He was..of a sedate look, something approaching to gravity. 1845S. Austin tr. Ranke's Hist. Ref. I. 65 They acted with such sedate vigour and cautious determination. 1876Flor. Marryat Her Father's Name xxiv, ‘A yellow light!’ cried Valera, suddenly... ‘I never heard of such a thing before’, he added a moment after, in a sedater tone. 1908Blackw. Mag. July 146/2 A serious, sedate, and easy-mannered gentleman.
†b. of the intellect, and intellectual operations.
1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 22 When fear hath..disabled the mind for a cool and sedate judgment and valuation of things. 1665Glanvill Scepsis Sci. x. 56 Requiring..a free, sedate, and intent minde. 1701Lond. Gaz. No. 3757/2 The late wise and sedate Resolutions of your Parliament. 1702Clarendon's Hist. Reb. I. Pref. 4 We shall leave them to their own sedate and composed Reflections.
c. transf. of literary composition.
1749Hurd Horace's Ars Poet. Introd. 14 Such abrupt and violent transitions, as might better agree to the impassioned elegy, than to the sedate didactic epistle.
d. of animals.
1791Cowper Retired Cat 1 A poet's cat, sedate and grave. 1870Dickens E. Drood ii, That sedate and clerical bird, the rook.
e. Of inanimate objects: not unduly striking in colour or design; quiet and restful in tone.
1924A. D. Sedgwick Little French Girl i. vi. 48 Sedate chairs with backs and seats embroidered in green and dove-colour were ranged along the wall. 1978J. Carroll Mortal Friends iii. v. 310 Brady stood in the bridge of the window, looking out on the sedate front lawn.
†2. Of physical objects: Quiet; motionless, or smooth and steady in motion. Obs.
1684R. Waller Nat. Exper. 57 The Water became sedate, and quiet as at First. 1696Phil. Trans. XIX. 301 If she at any time used any Motion, the Pain would encrease; commonly finding most ease when her Body was sedate. a1727Newton Chronol. Amended iv. (1728) 304 The river which was before straight, she made crooked with great windings, that it might be more sedate and less apt to over⁓flow. c1728Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (1890) 124 His pulse..was sedate enough.
3. Comb., as sedate-looking adj.
1925T. Dreiser Amer. Tragedy I. ii. xxxvii. 411 So clean, modest and sedate-looking a girl. 1977Rolling Stone 19 May 90/5 The sedate-looking trio sings R and B with fervor.
▪ II. seˈdate, v.
[f. L. sēdāt-, ppl. stem of sēdāre: see prec.]
†a. trans. To make calm or quiet; to assuage, allay. Obs.
1646J. Owen Vision Unchang. Free Mercy, etc. 56 These following lines were intended meerly to sedate and bury such contests. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 204 This was not to procure or excite prophesie, but to sedate passions and affections. 1657–83Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. 53 Did matter contend with matter, what confusion would it produce? whilst the mind and soul of man sedate the hostility, and bring it to due obedience.
b. Med. To make (a patient) sleepy or quiet by means of drugs; to administer a sedative to.
1945Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 21 Sept. 1/1 Two capsules are ordinarily considered enough to sedate a person—that is, produce a tendency to sleep. 1961Amer. Speech XXXVI. 145 The informal speech of physicians embodies a great many technical colloquialisms that may be called the argot of medicine... ‘He was very apprehensive, so I sedated him heavily.’ 1977Proc. R. Soc. Med. LXX. 549/1 He was sedated, intubated and ventilated and full supportive therapy was given with further blood transfusions.
Hence seˈdated ppl. a., under the influence of a sedative drug; † seˈdating vbl. n.
1953R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 129 ‘How is she?’.. ‘Expecting you. Be careful, won't you? She's still sedated—mildly, of course.’ 1974L. Deighton Spy Story xi. 107, I was half inclined to give the sedated Miss Shaw a miss. 1976J. Philips Backlash (1977) iii. i. 125 Elliot wasn't going to come to. He was heavily sedated. |