All 3 Uses of
sedate
in
The Canterbury Tales
- * *stay, fix his choice
For if that one had beauty in her face,
Another stood so in the people's grace
For her sadness* and her benignity, *sedateness
That of the people greatest voice had she:
And some were rich and had a badde name.†Chpt 4.10 *sedateness = the degree or quality of being calm
- * *sedateness
And when that he *on her was condescended,* *had selected her*
He thought his choice might not be amended;
For when that he himself concluded had,
He thought each other manne' s wit so bad,
That impossible it were to reply
Against his choice; this was his fantasy.†Chpt 4.10
- Thus saide the sad* folk in that city, *sedate
When that the people gazed up and down;
For they were glad, right for the novelty,
To have a newe lady of their town.†Chpt 4.9 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(sedate as in: sedate her) make calm or drowsy by giving a drug
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(2)
(sedate as in: she is sedate) calm -- possibly also dignified