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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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Etymology of 'Quiescent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Quiescent" Quotes from Famous Books

... old age is a period in which the reproductive functions are quiescent unless unnaturally stimulated. Sexual life begins with puberty, and, in the female, ends at about the age of forty-five years, the period known as the menopause, or turn of life. At this period, according to the plainest ...

— Plain Facts for Old and Young • John Harvey Kellogg

... quiescent during the process—and was on my feet in the safety of the darkness just as the reinforcement touched earth. This time I did not wait. My hunger for fight had been appeased to some extent by my brush with Buck, and I was satisfied to have ...

— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse

... twelve years or more, during which Mark seems to have remained quiescent; or, at all events, he does not appear to have had any work in connection with the great Apostle. Then we find him reappearing amongst Paul's company when he was in prison for the first time in Rome; and in the letters to Colossae ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John • Alexander Maclaren

... the sleepers. And in Jellico's cabin even Queex appeared to be influenced by the plight of its master, for instead of greeting Dane with its normal aspect of rage, the Hoobat stayed quiescent on the floor of its cage, its top claws hooked about two of the wires, its protruding eyes staring out into the room with what seemed closed to a malignant intelligence. It did not even spit as Dane passed under its abode to pour thin soup into ...

— Plague Ship • Andre Norton

... considerations to set out clearly the various stages of this period. During the first eight years of life, development is very rapid and not always relatively continuous. Sometimes it takes leaps, and sometimes appears for a time to be quiescent. But roughly the first stage, of a child's developing life ends when he can walk, eat more or less ordinary food, and is independent of his mother. At this point the Nursery School stage begins: the child is learning for himself his world by ...

— The Child Under Eight • E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith

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