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SED'ENTARY, a. [L. 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.