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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sedate1
▶adjective
- 1 calm and unhurried.
- 2 staid and rather dull.
– derivatives
sedately adverb,
sedateness noun.
sedately adverb,
sedateness noun.
– origin ME (also as a medical term in the sense ‘not sore or painful’): from L. sedatus, sedare ‘settle’, from sedere ‘sit’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sedate2
▶verb put under sedation.
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