otiant
adjUS /ˈoʊ.ʃi.ənt/
Etymology From Latin ōtior (“be at ease, enjoy leisure”).
1
Rare At ease, at leisure; idling, indolent.
- They […] who relegate the Supreme to the otiant ease of Epicurus, cut the nerves of moral obligation.1878, Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge, The North American Review, page 483:
- "You will see a new kind of country, soft of voice, otiant of manner, dressed in purple, and gray and blue. When you see you will think of the dateless leisure of Olympus. You will contrast it sharply with the Piedmont. One look at these gnarled old oaks and red-blooded hills[…]1940, Thornwell Jacobs, Red Lanterns on St. Michael's, page 152:
2
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Especially, Obsolete, Of Semitic languages Having no force or sound, like the l in would.
- Some letters are otiant in Modern Syriac, being generally, if not always, those retained for the sake of etymology, […]1855, David Tappan Stoddard, B. L. Hamlen, Grammar of the Modern Syriac Language, page 19: