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r harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [Obs.] I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough.

Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence."

ion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led hi…

Do-nothingness; inactivity; indolence.

Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.

Indolence. [Obs.] Holland.

Want of exertion; want of effort; defect of action; indolence; laziness.

Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope. " German dreams, Italian languors." The Century.

ng away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses. The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible. Rambler. Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame. I. Taylor.

One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi. The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters. Tennyson.

Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease. [R.] Thackeray.

To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.

sion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep.

re undone by unavoidable losses, but more undo themselves by vices and dissipation, or by indolence. That quaffing and drinking will undo you, Shak.

Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence. [Obs.] Massinger.