SED'ENTARY, adjective. [Latin sedentarius, from sedens, sedeo, to sit.] 1. Accustomed to sit much, or to pass most of the time in a sitting posture; as a sedentary man. Students, taylors and women are sedentary persons. 2. Requiring much sitting; as a sedentary occupation or employment. 3. Passed for the most part in sitting; as a sedentary life. 4. Inactive; motionless; sluggish; as the sedentary earth. The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss sedentary nature. Spectator.
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