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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SEDA'TE, a. [L. sedatus, from sedo, to calm or appease, that is, to set, to cause to subside.] Settled; composed; calm; quiet; tranquil; still; serene; unruffled by passion; udisturbed; as a sedate soul, mind or temper. So we say, a sedate look or countenance.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: characterized by dignity and propriety [syn: sedate, staid]
2: dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence" [syn: grave, sedate, sober, solemn] v
1: cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to; "The patient must be sedated before the operation" [syn: sedate, calm, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise] [ant: arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Latin sedatus, from past participle of sedare to calm; akin to sed?re to sit — more at sit Date: 1663 keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace ; unruffled Synonyms: see serious • sedately adverb • sedateness noun II. transitive verb (sedated; sedating) Etymology: back-formation from sedative Date: 1945 to dose with sedatives

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. adj. tranquil and dignified; equable, serious. Derivatives: sedately adv. sedateness n. Etymology: L sedatus past part. of sedare settle f. sedere sit 2. v.tr. put under sedation. Etymology: back-form. f. SEDATION

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sedate Se*date", a. [L. sedatus, p. p. of sedare, sedatum, to allay, calm, causative of sedere to sit. See Sit.] Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth. --I. Watts. Whatsoever we feel and know Too sedate for outward show. --Wordsworth. Syn: Settled; composed; calm; quiet; tranquil; still; serene; unruffled; undisturbed; contemplative; sober; serious. -- Se*date"ly, adv. -- Se*date"ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sedates, sedating, sedated) 1. If you describe someone or something as sedate, you mean that they are quiet and rather dignified, though perhaps a bit dull. She took them to visit her sedate, elderly cousins... ADJ: usu ADJ n • sedately ...sedately dressed in business suit with waistcoat. ADV: ADV with v 2. If you move along at a sedate pace, you move slowly, in a controlled way. We set off again at a more sedate pace. ADJ: usu ADJ n • sedately He pulled sedately out of the short driveway. ADV: ADV after v 3. If someone is sedated, they are given a drug to calm them or to make them sleep. The patient is sedated with intravenous use of sedative drugs... Doctors have been told not to sedate children with an anaesthetic that may be linked to five deaths. VERB: be V-ed, V n • sedated Grace was asleep, lightly sedated. ADJ: v-link ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Calm, composed, collected, quiet, placid, serene, tranquil, still, unruffled, undisturbed, settled, imperturbable, sober, serious, staid, demure, cool, philosophical, contemplative, grave, thoughtful.

Moby Thesaurus

anesthetize, aristocratic, august, calm, collected, composed, controlled, conventional, cool, courtly, decorous, demure, detached, dignified, dispassionate, dope, drug, earnest, entrance, even-tempered, formal, frowning, fussy, grand, grave, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, hypnotize, imperturbable, imposing, kingly, long-faced, lordly, lull to sleep, magisterial, magnetize, majestic, mesmerize, moderate, narcotize, no-nonsense, noble, old-fashioned, peaceful, placid, prim, princely, proper, prudish, put to sleep, put under, queenly, refined, regal, rock to sleep, royal, seemly, serene, serious, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, somber, staid, stately, statuesque, stiff, stone-faced, straight-faced, strait-laced, temperate, thoughtful, trance, tranquil, undisturbed, unflappable, unperturbed, unruffled, unsmiling, venerable, weighty, worthy