Defn: In a seductive manner.
SEDUCTRESS
Se*duc"tress, n.
Defn: A woman who seduces.
SEDULITY
Se*du"li*ty, n. Etym: [L. sedulitas. See Sedulous.]
Defn: The quality or state of being sedulous; diligent and assiduous application; constant attention; unremitting industry; sedulousness. The industrious bee, by his sedulity in summer, lives in honey all the winter. Feltham.
SEDULOUS Sed"u*lous, a. Etym: [L. sedulus, perhaps from sedere to sit, and so akin to E. sit.]
Defn: Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee. What signifies the sound of words in prayer, without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end L'Estrange.
Syn.
— Assiduous; diligent; industrious; laborious; unremitting;
untiring; unwearied; persevering.
— Sed"u*lous*ly, adv.
— Sed"u*lous*ness, n.
SEDUM
Se"dum, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. sedere to sit; so called in allusion to
the manner in which the plants attach themselves to rocks and walls.]
(Bot.)
Defn: A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop. Gray.