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Definition of Sedater
1. sedate [adj] - See also: sedate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sedater
Literary usage of Sedater
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of a Few Months' Residence in Portugal and Glimpses of the South of by Dorothy Wordsworth Quillinan, Edmund Lee (1895)
"... And there (while with sedater mien, O'er timid waters that have scarcely left
Their birth-place in the rocky cleft She bends) at leisure may be seen ..."
2. The Household Book of Poetry by Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"Even while I muse, I see thee sit In maiden bloom and matron wit; Fair, gentle
as when first I sued, Ye seem, bnt of sedater mood; Yet my heart leaps as ..."
3. The Book of Gems: The Poets and Artists of Great Britain by Samuel Carter Hall (1838)
"At times there come, as come there ought, Grave moments of sedater thought,— When
fortune frowns, nor lends our night One gleam of her ..."
4. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"At times there come, as come there ought, Grave moments of sedater thought—• When
Fortune frowns, nor lends our night One gleam of her inconstant light ..."
5. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of by Robert Chambers (1844)
"Even while I muse, I see thee sit In maiden bloom and matron wit— Fair, gentle
as when first I sued, Ye seem, but of sedater mood ; Vet my heart leaps as ..."
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