Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a quiescent manner; calmly; quietly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a quiescent manner.

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  • adverb In a quiescent manner.

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Examples

  • For example, to judge from the film's animated interludes, the "successful" teacher is one who literally pours information into a student's head while the child sits passively, quiescently awaiting the enlightenment.

    Susan Deily-Swearingen: Superman Revealed Susan Deily-Swearingen 2010

  • For example, to judge from the film's animated interludes, the "successful" teacher is one who literally pours information into a student's head while the child sits passively, quiescently awaiting the enlightenment.

    Susan Deily-Swearingen: Superman Revealed Susan Deily-Swearingen 2010

  • For example, to judge from the film's animated interludes, the "successful" teacher is one who literally pours information into a student's head while the child sits passively, quiescently awaiting the enlightenment.

    Susan Deily-Swearingen: Superman Revealed Susan Deily-Swearingen 2010

  • Of the quiescently frozen dessert and of all frozen after-meal treats you may eat, but absolutely not in the living room.

    Humor 2007

  • But Natalie has never been one for popsicles, suspecting there are many other quiescently frozen confections available that provide more oomph.

    Tuesday, August 18 – The Bleat. 2009

  • Of the quiescently frozen dessert and of all frozen after-meal treats you may eat, but absolutely not in the living room.

    Humor 2007

  • I think tomorrow will want to know how we could have meekly and quiescently allowed our civil rights to be abridged.

    March 2006 2006

  • Rumor suggests Harlan Ellison may have written the original script; asked about the episode at 1978's IgunaCon II science fiction convention, however, Ellison described the episode as "a quiescently glistening cherem of pus."

    A Star Trek Christmas 2005

  • Rumor suggests Harlan Ellison may have written the original script; asked about the episode at 1978's IgunaCon II science fiction convention, however, Ellison described the episode as "a quiescently glistening cherem of pus."

    The Sudden Curve: 2005

  • She was pretending to look down quiescently at her folded hands but in fact she was studying the captain.

    Spirit Gate 2006

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