sedentary

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"Traveller's Oracle," "is a recreation to be recommended, especially to those whose employments are sedentary -- who are engaged in abstract studies -- whose minds have been sunk in a state of morbid melancholy by hypochondriasis, or, by what is worst of all, a lack of domestic felicity.

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  1. adjective Characterized by or requiring much sitting: a sedentary job.
  2. adjective Accustomed to sitting or to taking little exercise.
  3. adjective Remaining or living in one area, as certain birds; not migratory.
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  • Their lives were more sedentary, and fast food was more readily available than it should be. —  Karin Slaughter - Kisscut
  • It is high hypocrisy to blame solely cigarete smoke and not other airborn chemicals or the lifestyle (sedentary) of the person. —  CTV News RSS Feed
  • Mitzi is present but sedentary, old, and of a don't even try to touch me or I'll run and hide for hours demeanor. —  Aliyah! Step-by-Step: Making a Life in Israel
  • Loneliness may be as harmful to your health as smoking or a sedentary lifestyle, according to a University of Chicago professor. —  The Frederick News-Post : Local News
  • I have to admit I'm paying the price for a sedentary lifestyle, so there's an element of "who are you to talk?", but 38 minutes of physical activity? —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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  1. French sédentaire, from Old French, from Latin sedentārius, from sedēns, sedent-, present participle of sedēre, to sit; see sed- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French sedentaire, French sédentaire = Spanish Portuguese Italian sedentario, from Latin sedentarius, sedentary, sitting, from seden (t-)s, present participle of sedere, sit: see sedent.
 

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