Adjective

(en adjective)

Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.

The oyster is a sedentary''' mollusk; the barnacles are '''sedentary crustaceans.

Not moving much; sitting around.

* Bishop Warburton

Sedentary , scholastic sophists.

* Beaconsfield

Any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect.

(obsolete) inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil

* Milton

The sedentary earth.

* Spectator

The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature.

(obsolete) Caused by long sitting.

* Milton

Sedentary numbness.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Lying on its back, reclined

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Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.

* Dryden

If the vine / On rising ground be placed, or hills supine .

Negligent; heedless; listless; lethargic; indifferent.

* Woodward

He became pusillanimous and supine , and openly exposed to any temptation.

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Passive

* 1748 , , Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral , London: Oxford University Press: 1973, page 34,

Nothing, therefore, can be more contrary than such a philosophy to the supine indolence of the mind.