It is unclear how Trierweiler came to the conclusion that the Élysée had allegedly been ordering the doctors to sedate her.
They are introduced; they call each other “Mr.” and “Miss”; they dance a sedate foxtrot.
He boasted of doing so much drugs that he had enough “running through my circulatory system to sedate Guatemala.”
I don't quite understand how a city can be so sedate and frenetic at the same time, but somehow Los Angeles manages it.
Where Citrus County felt like a coiled spring, the pace of A Million Heavens is sedate, diffused among a dozen or so characters.
I love to hear you talk, when you are so sedate as you seem now to be.
I had been told that the English were cold and sedate: I found them charming and full of humour.
We grew sedate; sedate were the brows of the few strangers we met.
Grave and sedate, as if knowing the sorrowful thoughts of his master.
The one servant of the house waited at table, prim, sedate, formal.
"calm, quiet," 1660s, from Latin sedatus "composed, moderate, quiet, tranquil," past participle of sedare "to settle, calm," causative of sedere "to sit" (see sedentary). Related: Sedately.
"treat with sedatives," 1945, a back-formation from the noun derivative of sedative (adj.). The word also existed 17c. in a sense "make calm or quiet." Related: Sedated; sedating.
sedate se·date (sĭ-dāt')
v. se·dat·ed, se·dat·ing, se·dates
To administer a sedative to; calm or relieve by means of a sedative drug.
