That gloomy slumber of the stagnant soul.
Johnson.
For him a stagnant life was not worth living.
Palfrey.
Stag"nant*ly, adv. In a stagnant manner.
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Stag"nate (stg"nt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stagnated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Stagnating.] [L. stagnatus, p. p. of stagnare to stagnate, make
stagnant, from stagnum a piece of standing water. See Stank a pool, and
cf. Stanch, v. t.] 1. To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood
stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by
want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room.
2. To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as,
commerce stagnates; business stagnates.
Ready-witted tenderness . . . never stagnates in vain lamentations
while there is any room for hope.
Sir W. Scott.
Stag"nate (?), a. Stagnant. [Obs.] "A stagnate mass of vapors." Young.
Stag*na"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. stagnation.] 1. The condition of being
stagnant; cessation of flowing or circulation, as of a fluid; the state
of being motionless; as, the stagnation of the blood; the stagnation of
water or air; the stagnation of vapors.
2. The cessation of action, or of brisk action; the state of being
dull; as, the stagnation of business.
Stag"worm (?), n. (Zoöl.) The larve of any species of botfly which is
parasitic upon the stag, as Œstrus, or Hypoderma, actæon, which burrows
beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the
nostrils.
Stahl"ian (?), a. Pertaining to, or taught by, Stahl, a German
physician and chemist of the 17th century; as, the Stahlian theory of
phlogiston.
Stahl"ian, n. A believer in, or advocate of, Stahlism.
{ Stahl"ism (?), Stahl"ian*ism (?) }, n. The Stahlian theory, that
every vital action is function or operation of the soul.
Staid (std), imp. & p. p. of Stay.
Staid, a. [From Stay to stop.] Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed;
regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful. "Sober and staid persons."
Addison.
O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.
Milton.
Syn. -- Sober; grave; steady; steadfast; composed; regular; sedate.
Staid"ly, adv. In a staid manner, sedately.
Staid"ness, n. The quality or state of being staid; seriousness;
steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or
levity.
If sometimes he appears too gray, yet a secret gracefulness of
youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness and sobriety
of age wanting.
Dryden.
Syn. -- Sobriety; gravity; steadiness; regularity; constancy; firmness;
stability; sedateness.