sedentaryadj.n.

/ˈsɛdəntəri/

Etymology: < French sédentaire, < Latin sedentārius , < sedent-em , present participle of sedēre to sit: see sedent adj. and -ary suffix¹. Compare Spanish sedentario, Portuguese sedentario, Italian sedentario.

A. adj.

a. Of habits, occupations, etc.: Requiring continuance in a sitting posture.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > [adjective] > requiring sitting posture

sedentary1603

sitting1812

sit-down1936

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxiv. 66 To divert them from all militarie exercises, and ammuse them to idle, secure, and sedentarie occupations.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xiii. 184 If thy life be sedentary, exercise thy body.

1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §190. 242 Reading and Writing and all other sedentary Studies.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. vi. 223 The habits of a sedentary and pacific profession.

1817 J. Jebb Corr. (1834) II. 331 The first sedentary morning I have had for weeks.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. i. 32 A short man..whose bent shoulders told of some sedentary occupation.

b. Of a quality.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > [adjective] > requiring sitting posture > of a quality

sedentary1815

1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. xiii. 428 The sedentary cunning of the lynx.

a. Of persons: Accustomed or addicted to sitting still; engaged in sedentary pursuits; not in the habit of taking physical exercise.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > [adjective] > sedentary or sitting still

stilla1586

stillsitting1598

sedentary1662

bench1820

1662 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds i. 40 A Sedentary young Gentleman of an ill habit of Body.

1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §192. 244 Since..sedentary or studious Men should have some Exercise, that at the same time might divert their Minds, and employ their Bodies.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 115. ¶4 The Spleen, which is so frequent in Men of studious and sedentary Tempers.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 222 But sedentary weavers of long tales, Give me the fidgets and my patience fails.

1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 322 A Gentleman of Kensington, of middle age, plethoric, and sedentary, but active in his mind.

1816 T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall vii. 105 Sedentary victims of unhealthy toil.

1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 240 Fancy a sedentary usher..suddenly called upon to unlearn all his scholar-like habits.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xvi. 206 A few sedentary characters..remained at table full a quarter of an hour.

absolute.1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 261 The Blood of labouring People is more dense than that of the sedentary.1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 433 Thus, the aged, the sedentary, and the dissipated, are known to be more liable to ulcers of the lower extremities, than the young, active, and sober.

†b. Slothful, inactive. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective]

unlustyc1225

sleepyc1384

phlegmatica1400

listlessc1440

owlist1440

unlisty1440

phlegmyc1450

sweyntc1450

supine1554

resty1565

unactive1591

sleepy-headed1600

log-like1602

inertious1611

stupefied?1611

lethargic1612

sedentary1625

torpent1647

torpid1656

torpulent1657

softly1664

inert1774

vegetative1789

spiritless1798

unenergetic1805

sloomy1820

slow-going1825

inenergetic1826

comatose1828

moony1847

mooning1864

torpid-minded1909

narcoleptic1965

vegged1986

1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. ii. 17 Our Physitians, being like vnto the lazie sedentarie Physitians of Alexandria,..are ashamed to aske of the patient the..symptomes.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 571 Till length of years And sedentary numness craze my limbs To a contemptible old age obscure.

1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 160 They are Slothful without Cares or Study, Sedentairy [sic], Idle.

†c. Not engaged in active business. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > lack of work > [adjective] > not engaged in active business

sedentary1738

1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. iii. iv. 396 The Egyptians; whose Sages were not sedentary scholastic Sophists, like the Grecian; but employed and busied in the public Affairs of Religion and Government.

1758 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 8 Jan. (1932) (modernized text) V. 2285 Abercrombie is to be the sedentary, and not the acting, Commander.

a. Remaining in one place of abode; not migratory. Of a tribunal, an assembly, a judge or other official: Established in one place; not moving from place to place in the course of official duty; opposed to ambulatory. Now rare (in modern use perhaps a Gallicism).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > not

sedentary1604

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [adjective] > fixed in one place

sedentary1604

1604 R. Dallington View of Fraunce sig. Q2^v That [Court of Parliament] of Paris..at first was ambulatory..: but since Philip le bel, it hath beene sedentary in this Citie.

a1628 J. Doddridge Eng. Lawyer (1631) 33 As well the Iudges itinerate.., as those that were sedentarie in the Kings high Courts of Iustice.

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell i. 2 To bee a Sedentary Traveller only, penn'd up between Wals, and to stand poring all day upon a Map,..is like him, who thought to come to bee a good Fencer, by looking on Agrippa's book-postures only.

1794 R. Heron Information Powers at War 176 The Convention declares itself sedentary in the capital, and permanent, till the conclusion of a peace.

1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) i. vii. 92 The sedentary labourer is more exposed to the vicissitudes of fortune, than he who leads a wandering life.

1857 Colton's Atlas, Russia in Asia The Tchuktchi..consist of two tribes, one sedentary and the other nomadic.

1891 Daily News 16 Mar. 6/1 Does England..in promising to effect the removal of ‘sedentary establishments’ undertake to forbid her subjects raising any construction, such for example as the lobster factories.

1899 Daily News 13 Nov. 7/7 The remedy consists in adding to the sedentary forces as if we were a State like Switzerland.

†b. Of a material thing: Continuing in one place, motionless. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining in one place

stablea1400

dormantc1440

standing1469

remanent?a1475

ledger1547

fixed1559

restiff1578

statary1581

permanent1588

consistent1604

stationary1631

fundamental1633

resident1653

sedentary1667

statual1752

loco-restive1796

untransmigrated1821

stabile1896

static1910

sessile1917

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 32 And on thir Orbs impose Such restless revolution day by day Repeated, while the sedentarie Earth,..attaines Her end without least motion.

1786 J. Bonnycastle Introd. Astron. 31 The absurdity of supposing the earth a sedentary and immoveable body.

c. Zoology. Inhabiting the same region through life; not migratory. Also of mollusca, etc.: Confined to one spot, not locomotory. Of spiders: see B.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by locomotion > [adjective] > sedentary

sluggish1836

sedentary1851

sessile1860

the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > migratory > not migratory

resident1790

sedentary1851

1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 11 The sedentary tribes settle in the place they intend to occupy during the remainder of their lives.

1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 274 Sedentary Spiders (Sedentaria).

1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 316 Sedentary~Annelids (Tubicola).

1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 241 Most of them [Gasteropods] being free and locomotive, though some are sedentary.

1902 C. J. Cornish Naturalist on Thames 153 No one has satisfactorily answered the question why there are sedentary species and migratory species so closely allied in habits and food.

†4. Deliberate. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > performed with intention

bethoughtc1200

expressa1400

wilfula1400

purposedc1422

purpensed1436

malice prepensed1454

aforethought1472

studiedc1475

setc1485

voluntary1495

deliberate?1527

willing1550

witting1553

propensed1560

fore-intendeda1586

affected1586

designed1586

determinate1586

intended1592

deliberated1594

uncasual1614

recollecteda1616

resolved1624

industriousa1628

intentionate1631

pre-intended1636

advised1642

malice prepense1647

sedentary1647

propense1650

consultive1651

(crime, evil, etc.) of forethought1692

conscious1726

intentionala1729

systematic1746

studious1750

systematical1750

prepensive1752

advertent1832

self-conscious1832

volitive1839

designful1852

purposeful1853

purposive1864

thought-controlled1926

1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times ii. x. 75 Lord, pardon my cursory, and preserve me from sedentary sinnes.

1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd ii. 74 He..proceeded to take away their Lives; not in the hot and Military way..but in the cooler blood and sedentary execution of an High Court of Justice.

5. Geology. Of a soil or sediment: = residual adj. 6.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [adjective] > other types of soil

redeOE

Armeniac?a1425

rosiny1613

Chiltern1669

light land1770

acid1806

residuary1829

mottled1845

sedentary1870

residual1876

azonal1896

Bulli1904

immature1921

mature1924

intrazonal1927

podzolic1927

pedalferic1928

pedocalic1928

solonetzic1935

planosolic1949

solodic1968

cryptogamic1973

cryptobiotic1992

1870 S. W. Johnson How Crops Feed ii. iii. 143 Sedentary soils, or Soils in place, are those which have not been transported by geological agencies.

1906 E. W. Hilgard Soils i. 11 When soils have been formed without removal from the site of the original rock, by simple weathering, they are designated as sedentary, or residual soils.

1929 Daily Tel. 22 Jan. 4/7 The soil being considered ‘sedentary’ in character.

1943 C. E. Millar & L. M. Turk Fund. Soil Sci. i. 4 Since they have not suffered the mixing that accompanies transportation by ice and water there are many variations in the characteristics, both physical and chemical, of sedentary materials.

1975 Flegmann & George Soils iv. 103 This visual gradation is particularly obvious when a soil has been formed in situ by the gradual weathering of parent rock, such soils being referred to as sedentary.

B. n. [absolute use of A. 3c] Zoology.

One of a group of spiders (Sedentariæ) which take their prey by means of a web in or near which they remain watching.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > web-spinning or sedentary

spinnerc1220

web-worker1658

silk-spider1728

sedentary1815

web-spinner1825

1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. xiii. 425 Walckenaer,..terming those already mentioned which spin webs and nets, Sedentaries.

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1100/1 Sedentaries, Sedentaria.

Compounds

sedentary-looking adj.

ΚΠ

1937 W. B. Yeats Vision (rev. ed.) 37 Aherne..was stout and sedentary-looking.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	sedentary
释义	sedentaryadj.n. /ˈsɛdəntəri/ Etymology: < French sédentaire, < Latin sedentārius , < sedent-em , present participle of sedēre to sit: see sedent adj. and -ary suffix¹. Compare Spanish sedentario, Portuguese sedentario, Italian sedentario. A. adj. 1. a. Of habits, occupations, etc.: Requiring continuance in a sitting posture. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > [adjective] > requiring sitting posture sedentary1603 sitting1812 sit-down1936 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxiv. 66 To divert them from all militarie exercises, and ammuse them to idle, secure, and sedentarie occupations. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xiii. 184 If thy life be sedentary, exercise thy body. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §190. 242 Reading and Writing and all other sedentary Studies. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. vi. 223 The habits of a sedentary and pacific profession. 1817 J. Jebb Corr. (1834) II. 331 The first sedentary morning I have had for weeks. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. i. 32 A short man..whose bent shoulders told of some sedentary occupation. b. Of a quality. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > [adjective] > requiring sitting posture > of a quality sedentary1815 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. xiii. 428 The sedentary cunning of the lynx. 2. a. Of persons: Accustomed or addicted to sitting still; engaged in sedentary pursuits; not in the habit of taking physical exercise. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > [adjective] > sedentary or sitting still stilla1586 stillsitting1598 sedentary1662 bench1820 1662 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds i. 40 A Sedentary young Gentleman of an ill habit of Body. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §192. 244 Since..sedentary or studious Men should have some Exercise, that at the same time might divert their Minds, and employ their Bodies. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 115. ¶4 The Spleen, which is so frequent in Men of studious and sedentary Tempers. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 222 But sedentary weavers of long tales, Give me the fidgets and my patience fails. 1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 322 A Gentleman of Kensington, of middle age, plethoric, and sedentary, but active in his mind. 1816 T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall vii. 105 Sedentary victims of unhealthy toil. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 240 Fancy a sedentary usher..suddenly called upon to unlearn all his scholar-like habits. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xvi. 206 A few sedentary characters..remained at table full a quarter of an hour. absolute.1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 261 The Blood of labouring People is more dense than that of the sedentary.1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 433 Thus, the aged, the sedentary, and the dissipated, are known to be more liable to ulcers of the lower extremities, than the young, active, and sober. †b. Slothful, inactive. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] unlustyc1225 sleepyc1384 phlegmatica1400 listlessc1440 owlist1440 unlisty1440 phlegmyc1450 sweyntc1450 supine1554 resty1565 unactive1591 sleepy-headed1600 log-like1602 inertious1611 stupefied?1611 lethargic1612 sedentary1625 torpent1647 torpid1656 torpulent1657 softly1664 inert1774 vegetative1789 spiritless1798 unenergetic1805 sloomy1820 slow-going1825 inenergetic1826 comatose1828 moony1847 mooning1864 torpid-minded1909 narcoleptic1965 vegged1986 1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. ii. 17 Our Physitians, being like vnto the lazie sedentarie Physitians of Alexandria,..are ashamed to aske of the patient the..symptomes. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 571 Till length of years And sedentary numness craze my limbs To a contemptible old age obscure. View more context for this quotation 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 160 They are Slothful without Cares or Study, Sedentairy [sic], Idle. †c. Not engaged in active business. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > lack of work > [adjective] > not engaged in active business sedentary1738 1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. iii. iv. 396 The Egyptians; whose Sages were not sedentary scholastic Sophists, like the Grecian; but employed and busied in the public Affairs of Religion and Government. 1758 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 8 Jan. (1932) (modernized text) V. 2285 Abercrombie is to be the sedentary, and not the acting, Commander. 3. a. Remaining in one place of abode; not migratory. Of a tribunal, an assembly, a judge or other official: Established in one place; not moving from place to place in the course of official duty; opposed to ambulatory. Now rare (in modern use perhaps a Gallicism). ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > not sedentary1604 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [adjective] > fixed in one place sedentary1604 1604 R. Dallington View of Fraunce sig. Q2^v That [Court of Parliament] of Paris..at first was ambulatory..: but since Philip le bel, it hath beene sedentary in this Citie. a1628 J. Doddridge Eng. Lawyer (1631) 33 As well the Iudges itinerate.., as those that were sedentarie in the Kings high Courts of Iustice. 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell i. 2 To bee a Sedentary Traveller only, penn'd up between Wals, and to stand poring all day upon a Map,..is like him, who thought to come to bee a good Fencer, by looking on Agrippa's book-postures only. 1794 R. Heron Information Powers at War 176 The Convention declares itself sedentary in the capital, and permanent, till the conclusion of a peace. 1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) i. vii. 92 The sedentary labourer is more exposed to the vicissitudes of fortune, than he who leads a wandering life. 1857 Colton's Atlas, Russia in Asia The Tchuktchi..consist of two tribes, one sedentary and the other nomadic. 1891 Daily News 16 Mar. 6/1 Does England..in promising to effect the removal of ‘sedentary establishments’ undertake to forbid her subjects raising any construction, such for example as the lobster factories. 1899 Daily News 13 Nov. 7/7 The remedy consists in adding to the sedentary forces as if we were a State like Switzerland. †b. Of a material thing: Continuing in one place, motionless. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining in one place stablea1400 dormantc1440 standing1469 remanent?a1475 ledger1547 fixed1559 restiff1578 statary1581 permanent1588 consistent1604 stationary1631 fundamental1633 resident1653 sedentary1667 statual1752 loco-restive1796 untransmigrated1821 stabile1896 static1910 sessile1917 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 32 And on thir Orbs impose Such restless revolution day by day Repeated, while the sedentarie Earth,..attaines Her end without least motion. View more context for this quotation 1786 J. Bonnycastle Introd. Astron. 31 The absurdity of supposing the earth a sedentary and immoveable body. c. Zoology. Inhabiting the same region through life; not migratory. Also of mollusca, etc.: Confined to one spot, not locomotory. Of spiders: see B. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by locomotion > [adjective] > sedentary sluggish1836 sedentary1851 sessile1860 the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > migratory > not migratory resident1790 sedentary1851 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 11 The sedentary tribes settle in the place they intend to occupy during the remainder of their lives. 1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 274 Sedentary Spiders (Sedentaria). 1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 316 Sedentary~Annelids (Tubicola). 1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 241 Most of them [Gasteropods] being free and locomotive, though some are sedentary. 1902 C. J. Cornish Naturalist on Thames 153 No one has satisfactorily answered the question why there are sedentary species and migratory species so closely allied in habits and food. †4. Deliberate. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > performed with intention bethoughtc1200 expressa1400 wilfula1400 purposedc1422 purpensed1436 malice prepensed1454 aforethought1472 studiedc1475 setc1485 voluntary1495 deliberate?1527 willing1550 witting1553 propensed1560 fore-intendeda1586 affected1586 designed1586 determinate1586 intended1592 deliberated1594 uncasual1614 recollecteda1616 resolved1624 industriousa1628 intentionate1631 pre-intended1636 advised1642 malice prepense1647 sedentary1647 propense1650 consultive1651 (crime, evil, etc.) of forethought1692 conscious1726 intentionala1729 systematic1746 studious1750 systematical1750 prepensive1752 advertent1832 self-conscious1832 volitive1839 designful1852 purposeful1853 purposive1864 thought-controlled1926 1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times ii. x. 75 Lord, pardon my cursory, and preserve me from sedentary sinnes. 1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd ii. 74 He..proceeded to take away their Lives; not in the hot and Military way..but in the cooler blood and sedentary execution of an High Court of Justice. 5. Geology. Of a soil or sediment: = residual adj. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [adjective] > other types of soil redeOE Armeniac?a1425 rosiny1613 Chiltern1669 light land1770 acid1806 residuary1829 mottled1845 sedentary1870 residual1876 azonal1896 Bulli1904 immature1921 mature1924 intrazonal1927 podzolic1927 pedalferic1928 pedocalic1928 solonetzic1935 planosolic1949 solodic1968 cryptogamic1973 cryptobiotic1992 1870 S. W. Johnson How Crops Feed ii. iii. 143 Sedentary soils, or Soils in place, are those which have not been transported by geological agencies. 1906 E. W. Hilgard Soils i. 11 When soils have been formed without removal from the site of the original rock, by simple weathering, they are designated as sedentary, or residual soils. 1929 Daily Tel. 22 Jan. 4/7 The soil being considered ‘sedentary’ in character. 1943 C. E. Millar & L. M. Turk Fund. Soil Sci. i. 4 Since they have not suffered the mixing that accompanies transportation by ice and water there are many variations in the characteristics, both physical and chemical, of sedentary materials. 1975 Flegmann & George Soils iv. 103 This visual gradation is particularly obvious when a soil has been formed in situ by the gradual weathering of parent rock, such soils being referred to as sedentary. B. n. [absolute use of A. 3c] Zoology. One of a group of spiders (Sedentariæ) which take their prey by means of a web in or near which they remain watching. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > web-spinning or sedentary spinnerc1220 web-worker1658 silk-spider1728 sedentary1815 web-spinner1825 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. xiii. 425 Walckenaer,..terming those already mentioned which spin webs and nets, Sedentaries. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1100/1 Sedentaries, Sedentaria. Compounds sedentary-looking adj. ΚΠ 1937 W. B. Yeats Vision (rev. ed.) 37 Aherne..was stout and sedentary-looking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1603
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