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Having no energy; sluggish. [R.] Boyle.

Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless. The inert and desponding party of the court. Macaulay. It present becomes extravagant, then imbecile, and at length utterly inert. I. Taylor.

Inertness; indisposition to motion, exertion, or action; want of energy; sluggishness. Men . . . have immense irresolution and inertia. Carlyle.

Without activity; sluggishly. Pope.

Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. Laziness and inertness of mind. Burke.

Slow; sluggish; backward.

Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream. "The night owl's lazy flight." Shak.

Heavy; dull; sluggish. "Leaden slumber." Shak.

Slowness; sluggishness. [Obs.]

Slowness; delay; sluggishness. Arbuthnot.

A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob. [Low]

dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse. [U.S.] Porcupines are . . . logy, sluggish creatures. C. H. Merriam.

Drowsiness; dullness; sluggishness. Hallam. It might proceed from the oscitancy of transcribers. Addison.

Sleepy; drowsy; dull; sluggish; careless. He must not be oscitant, but intent on his charge. Barrow.

Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness. They judge with fury, but they write with phlegm. Pope.

Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person. Addison. Phlegmatic temperament (Old Physiol.), lymphatic temperament. See under Lymphatic.

The quality or state of being resty; sluggishness. [Obs.] The snake by restiness and lying still all winter. Holland.

Inactive; sluggish. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive. [Obs.] Burton. Where the master is too resty or too rich to say his own prayers. Milton.

Inactive; motionless; sluggish; hence, calm; tranquil. [R.] "The sedentary earth." Milton. The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature. Spectator.