Both Uses of
sedate
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- —And has remained so, one should hope, John Eglinton sedately said.†
Chpt 9 *
- It was an ancient and a sad matron of a sedate look and christian walking, in habit dun beseeming her megrims and wrinkled visage, nor did her hortative want of it effect for incontinently Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou…†
Chpt 14 *
Definitions:
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(sedate as in: she is sedate) calm -- possibly also dignified
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(sedate as in: sedate her) make calm or drowsy by giving a drug