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Dormancy   Listen
noun
Dormancy  n.  
1.
The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance. "It is by lying dormant a long time, or being... very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people."
2.
(Her.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; distinguished from couchant.
Dormant partner (Com.), a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share in losses; called also sleeping partner or silent partner.
Dormant window (Arch.), a dormer window. See Dormer.
Table dormant, a stationary table. (Obs.)





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"Dormancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... into the shadows upon the water, supposing they came from thence; but seeing by a glance that it was the slave who sung, he dropped from the wall and crept quietly to her side. Before the song was ended he lay down at her feet in a state apparently of dormancy, though his eyes, peering from beneath one of his arms, were fixed upon a cluster of stars that ...
— The Circassian Slave; or, The Sultan's Favorite - A Story of Constantinople and the Caucasus • Lieutenant Maturin Murray
... Taxila to exchange the best each had to offer. After many centuries the East and West had met once more, and it would be the test of the real greatness of the two civilisations that both should be finer and better for the shock of contact. The apparent dormancy of intellectual life in India had been only a temporary phase. Just like the oscillations of the seasons found the globe, great pulsations of intellectual activity pass over the different peoples ...
— Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose - His Life and Speeches • Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose


Words linked to "Dormancy" :   sleeping, inactiveness, inactivity, hibernation, dormant, quiescency, quiescence, aestivation, rest


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