sedate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of a person or animal, or their behaviour: calm and composed (often in a dignified manner), and avoiding or unaffected by activity or excitement.

   “But vvhen […] vvilfulneſs [in a child] evidently ſhevvs it ſelf, and makes Blovvs neceſſary, I think the Chaſtiſement ſhould be a little more Sedate and a little more Severe, […]”

2. sıfat Of an object, particularly a building: not overly ornate or showy; not having a strong colour or design.

   “Sometimes she passed down avenues of sedate mansions, soberly numbered 'one,' 'two,' 'three,' and so on right up to two or three hundred, each the copy of the other, with two pillars and six steps and a pair of curtains neatly drawn […] until her mind was dizzied with the monotony.”

3. sıfat Of writing: not emotional; calm, composed.
4. sıfat Of one's mind, thoughts, etc.: calm, sober.

   “[W]e ſhall leave them to their ovvn ſedate and compoſed Reflections.”

5. sıfat Of an object: not moving; at rest, quiet, still; also, moving smoothly and steadily.

   “[T]he river vvhich before vvas ſtraight, ſhe [Nitocris] made crooked vvith great vvindings, that it might be more ſedate and leſs apt to overflovv.”

6. fiil To give (a person) a sedative to calm them or put them to sleep; to tranquilize.

   “Though he may have been sedated, he knew I was there, knew who I was, knew I was talking to him.”

7. fiil To make (someone or something) calm or tranquil; to assuage, to calm, to soothe.

   “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, as being a power abstracted, a distinct and immaterial principle.”