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adjective

Quiescent adj.

Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; as, a quiescent body or fluid.

Not ruffed with passion; unagitated; not in action; not excited; quiet; dormant; resting. "In times of national security, the feeling of patriotism... is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist."

(Gram.) Not sounded; silent; as, y is quiescent in "day" and "say."

noun

Quiescent n. (Gram.) A silent letter.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Quiescent" Quotes from Famous Books

... Partition of Bengal revealed a very different India that was in process of evolution with much and dangerous travail out of the reaction of new forces, hitherto almost unobserved, upon old forces so long quiescent that they had come to ...

— India, Old and New • Sir Valentine Chirol

... the sea had ever a profound word, some sudden revelation, some unlocked for enlightenment, some unexpected significance. She revealed to him, in the secret recesses of his soul, a wound still gaping though quiescent, and she made it bleed again, but only to heal it with balm that was doubly sweet. She re-awakened the dragon that slumbered within him, till he felt once more the terrible grip of its claws, and then she slew it once for all and buried it deep ...

— The Child of Pleasure • Gabriele D'Annunzio

... storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning. The rain came down in torrents, sweeping along the decks, while a heavy squall threatened to drive us upon the rocks, which we had admired so much as the guardians of the port. In this emergency, we were compelled to drop our anchor, and remain quiescent until the fury of the elements had abated. The storm passed away about midnight, and getting the steam up, we were far away from Marseilles and ...

— Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay • Miss Emma Roberts

... hear that from you. I will not indeed. I have endeavoured to do my duty by you, and I do not deserve it. I am endeavouring to do my duty now, and you must know that it would ill become me to remain quiescent while you are in such a state. The world around you is observing you, and knows that you are not doing your work. All I want of you is that you should arouse yourself, and go to ...

— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope

... They first get a knock on the head like the more noble beasts already mentioned; they are then stuck, in order to be thoroughly bled; after this they are plunged headlong into a long trough of boiling water, in which they lie side by side in a quiescent state, very different to the one they were in a few minutes before, when they were quarrelling in a most unmannerly manner in the yard below. From this trough the one first put in is, by a most ingenious ...

— First Impressions of the New World - On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 • Isabella Strange Trotter

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