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being quiet or still or inactive for the time being
or in medicine: causing no symptoms
or in medicine: causing no symptoms
- Just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as indifferently quiescent till the moment when motion is transmitted to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet reached.Book Three — 1805 (61% in)
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