Sedate: alternatives and connections

Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decoro…

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Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decoro…

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Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.

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Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.

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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism.

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To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep.

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The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.

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The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.

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Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility;…

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To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for t…

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Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.

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Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.

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Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful.

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Alt. of Tranquillize

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To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotio…

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