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Word Meanings - QUIESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not sounded; silent; as, y is quiescent in "day" and "say." (more info) 1. Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; as, a quiescent body or fluid. 2. Not ruffed with passion; unagitated; not in action; not excited; quiet; dormant;

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Not sounded; silent; as, y is quiescent in "day" and "say." (more info) 1. Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; as, a quiescent body or fluid. 2. Not ruffed with passion; unagitated; not in action; not excited; quiet; dormant; resting. In times of national security, the feeling of patriotism . . . is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist. Prof. Wilson.

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  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • LIFELESS
    Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
  • UNRESISTANCE
    Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
  • STILLBIRTH
    The birth of a dead fetus.
  • NEGATIVE
    Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. (more info) 1. Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing
  • SLUMBERY
    Sleepy. Chaucer.
  • ENDURANT
    Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
  • UNFLOWER
    To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
  • SLEEPWALKER
    One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
  • FALLOW
    Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
  • NEGATIVENESS; NEGATIVITY
    The quality or state of being negative.
  • PASSIVE FLIGHT
    Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
  • STATIONARY
    1. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey. 2. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
  • STILLSTAND
    A standstill. Shak.
  • UNRESISTED
    1. Not resisted; unopposed. Bentley. 2. Resistless; as, unresisted fate. Pope.
  • STILLING
    A stillion.
  • ENDUREMENT
    Endurance. South.
  • INERTIA
    That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness;
  • PATIENTLY
    In a patient manner. Cowper.
  • FIXTURE
    Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
  • COMPATIENT
    Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • OVERPATIENT
    Patient to excess.
  • REFIX
    To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
  • OMNIPATIENT
    Capable of enduring all things. Carlyle.
  • INSTILL
    To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
  • AFFIX
    figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
  • PISTILLIFEROUS
    Pistillate.
  • DEFIX
    To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
  • OUT-PATIENT
    A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
  • AFFIXION
    Affixture. T. Adams.
  • DISTILLABLE
    Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
  • DISTILLATION
    The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
  • FINESTILLER
    One who finestills.

 

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