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oscitant, a. Now rare or Obs.|ˈɒsɪtənt|
[ad. L. oscitānt-em, pr. pple. of oscitāre to gape, yawn: see oscitate and -ant. Cf. F. oscitant (1812 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Gaping from drowsiness, yawning; hence, drowsy, dull, indolent, negligent.
1625J. King David's Strait 18 They thinke it too long a taske for so short a life,..they growe oscitant, and will peruse none. 1647Word for Army in Harl. Misc. (1745) V. 572 An oscitant and untrussed Kind of Deportment in all Men towards publick Affairs. 1690Boyle Chr. Virtuoso i. 16 Perfunctory looks of Oscitant or Unskilful Beholders. 1809Coleridge Lett., to T. Poole (1895) 551 Southey, who has been my corrector, has been strangely oscitant, or..has not understood the sentences.
Hence ˈoscitantly adv., drowsily, indolently.
1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) p. iii, Which those drowsie Nodders over the Letter of the Scripture have very oscitantly collected. 1698Fryer E. India & P. 331 These busy Tutors of Mankind, who upbraid the slothful and oscitantly idle. |