dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
<adj.all> a grave God-fearing man a quiet sedate nature as sober as a judge a solemn promise the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence
Sedate \Se*date"\, a. [L. sedatus, p. p. of sedare, sedatum, to allay, calm, causative of sedere to sit. See {Sit}.] Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper.
Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth. --I. Watts.
Whatsoever we feel and know Too sedate for outward show. --Wordsworth.
These days Ms. Griffith drives a sedate BMW sedan.
The gloves are off in the normally sedate world of Portuguese banking.
The UK is following at a more sedate pace.
Although some aggressive small-company funds have soared 40% or more in the period, their conservative brethren have turned in more sedate results, some barely posting double-digit gains.
Something fishy is going on in the sedate world of freshwater angling. Sales of rod-fishing licences are soaring.
Her mother said Alyssa was "sedate" on the plane ride home. But Mrs. Smith, her husband John Smith and relieved relatives did plenty of celebrating.
In one, she wears a pearl-drop tiara that once belonged to Queen Mary, the Prince of Wales's great-grandmother, and a sedate pearl necklace.
A men's climbing club plans to celebrate the new year with a bang atop 14,110-foot Pikes Peak, while a women's group plans a more sedate celebration on top of a nearby mountain.
The latter led past a lottery, Sunday trains and a sedate dance hall to damnation.
She stays in a sedate grey and white.
In a more sedate vein, New York's Museum of Modern Art will have a gift shop of museum copies.
As it was disrupting golfers and stomping on fences on Saturday, an attempt was made to sedate the animal so it could be returned to nearby Moscow Mountain.
Food and Drug Administration officials said Monday they were looking into reports that a drug commonly used to sedate children may cause cancer.
'There is a risk,' says Nomura Equity Research, 'that the Allianz earnings curve over the medium term will be unspectacular.' Last year, Allianz boosted pre-tax profits by 25 per cent to DM2bn, but this year's performance has been more sedate.
Even though only 15% to 20% of the magazine's editorial content is devoted to the skin pictorials, advertisers just don't consider it in the same breath with more sedate men's life-style magazines.
The House of Lords, the more sedate unelected upper chamber of Parliament, has permitted televising of its proceedings since January 1985 and viewers have occasionally glimpsed a peer of the realm soundly asleep.
But there is nothing sedate about the firm's courtroom tactics.
The survey added that its sedate downtown should be invigorated soon by a planned $500 million redevelopment.
The parade was relatively sedate, with only a few pockets of green-faced and green-headed rowdies visible.
He decided it was time, in his favourite phrase for causing mayhem, to put 'a ferret up the trouser leg'. Surprisingly, he chose to drop his bombshell on the Radio 4's rather sedate programme, The World Tonight.
Holiday fun turned rowdy at the usually sedate resort town of Chelan, Wash., and about 400 citations were issued and 150 arrests made, mostly for public intoxication and consumption of alcohol by minors.
The sedate and familiar nature of administrative work might provide welcome relief from the hurly-burly of strictly managerial work.
The western half attracted those keen to flee Frankfurt and other West German cities for a more sedate life in a highly subsidised city.
Indeed, nicotine is almost unique among psychoactive drugs in its capacity to both sedate and stimulate, say scientists.
The three months delivery price closed at Dollars 4,555 a tonne, down Dollars 65. At the London Commodity Exchange COCOA futures edged higher in very sedate fashion.
The 400-pound pony named Penny was finally freed Wednesday night when 10 firemen and veterinarian William Lake, of Jefferson, carried the sedated animal downstairs in a basket-like stretcher. Balog said it took two tries to sedate Penny.
"Webster's Word Histories," touted as a companion for "armchair etymologists," is a departure from the dictionary publisher's generally sedate product, filled with lively prose and complete with an eyecatching "bikini" entry on the jacket.
Some 1,500 police, including nearly 1,000 drafted in from forces in a dozen other counties, and unspecified military units guarded this sedate resort 108 miles southwest of London.
So far, the amount of money involved in this form of inter-European competition is small, but it's growing rapidly and roiling waters in what was once a sedate industry.