"Dormant" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
Literally, sleeping; hence Inactive; in abeyance; unknown; concealed
A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of
the other timbers rest or \" sleep.\"
In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; --
distinguished from couchant.
Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or
exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or
insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.
How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
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