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The soul, considered abstractedly from its passions, is of a 
remiss sedentary nature, slow in its resolves, and languish¬ 
ing in its executions. Addison. 
SEDER OLAM, in Philology, a Hebrew term, literally 
signifying, order of the world 5 being the title of two chro¬ 
nicles in that language. 
They are both very short, though the one more so than 
the other; for which reason the one is called seder olam 
rabba, that is, the great seder olam; and the other, seder 
olam zuta, i. e. little seder olam. 
SEDER OLAM, the Great, commences at the creation of 
the world, and comes down as low as the war of the pseudo- 
messiah Barchochebas, under Adrian, fifty two years after 
the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem; and of conse¬ 
quence to the hundred and twenty-second year of Christ. 
It is almost all taken from the Scripture, excepting the end. 
It is the work of R. J-osa, sou of Hhelpeta of Tsippora, who 
lived in the second century, about the year 130, and was 
master of the famous R. Juda Hakkadosch, the compiler of 
the Mischna. 
SEDER OLAM, the Lesser, is an abridgment of the 
former, brought down as far as Mar Sutra, who lived 450 
years after the destruction of, the temple, or 522 years after 
Christ. F. Morin, continually bent upon diminishing the 
antiquity of the principal books of the Jews, endeavours to 
prove this to have been written about the year of Christ 1124, 
as indeed it is expressed in the beginning; but R. Dav. 
Gantz has overthrown this opinion in his Tsemahh David, 
and shewn that the date in the beginning is an interpo¬ 
lation. 
These two chronicles were first printed at Mantua in 1514, 
4to.; again at Basil, by Frobenius, in 1580, 8 vo.; at Venice, 
in 1545, 4to.; and at Paris, with a Latin version of 
Geuebrard, in 12mo. They have been since reprinted at 
Amsterdam, in 1711. 
SEDFE, or Ziphte, a village of Lower Egypt, on the 
left bank of the eastern branch of the Nile3 miles south of 
Bata. 
SEDGBERROW, a parish of England, county of Wor¬ 
cester; 4 miles south-south-west of Evesham. 
SEDGBROOK, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 
4 miles west-north-west of Grantham. 
SEDGE, s. [i'ecj, Saxon ; whence, in the provinces, a 
narrow flag is called sag or Jcg - .] A growth of narrow 
flags; a narrow flag. 
Adonis, painted by a running brook. 
And Cytherea all in sedges hid ; 
Which seem to move and wanton with her breath, 
Even as the waving sedges play with wind. Shakspearc. 
SE'DGED, ad/. Composed of flags. 
You nymphs, call’d Naiads, of the wandring brooks, 
With your sedg’d crowns and ever harmless looks 
Leave your crisp channels. Shakspeare. 
SEDGFIELD, a township of England, and formerly a 
market town, in the county of Durham, which has a well- 
endowed alms-house, and a free grammar-school; 11 miles 
south-east of Durham, and 255| north-by-west of London. 
Population 1307. 
SEDGEFORD, a parish of England, county of Norfolk; 
9 miles north-north-east of Castle Rising. 
SEDGELEY, a parish of England, in Staffordshire, near 
Dudley; 3 miles south of Wolverhampton. Here are con¬ 
siderable iron manufactures. Population 13,937. 
SEDGEMOOR, a track of country in Somersetshire, 
Englaud, lying north of the river Parret, between King’s- 
Weston and Bridgewater, rendered memorable by the defeat 
of the duke of Monmouth and his party, in 1685, by the 
forces under king James If. 
5EDGER RIVER, a river of Patagonia, which runs into 
the straits of Magellan. The water of this river is excel¬ 
lent; but the bdafs cannot get in till about two hours flood, 
because at low water it is very shallow for about three quarters 
of a mile. Commodore Byron says, “ I went up it about 
four miles in my boat, and the fallen trees then rendered it 
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impossible to go farther : I found it, indeed, not only diffi¬ 
cult, but dangerous to get up thus far. The stream is very 
rapid, and many stumps of trees lie hidden under it: one of 
these made its way through the bottom of my boat, and in 
an instant she was full of water. On each side of this river 
there are the finest trees I ever saw; and I make no doubt 
but that they would supply the British navy with the best 
masts in the world: some of them are of a great height, and 
more than eight feet in diameter, which is proportionably 
more than eight yards in circumference; so that four men 
joining hand in hand, could not compass them. Among 
others, we found the pepper tree or winter’s-bark in great 
plenty. Among these woods, notwithstanding the coldness 
of the climate, there are innumerable parrots, and other 
birds of the most beautiful plumage. I shot every day 
geese and ducks enough to serve my own table and several 
others; and all on board might have done the same; we 
had, indeed, great plenty of fresh provisions of all kinds; 
for we eaught as much fish every day as served the com¬ 
panies of both ships. As I was much on shore here, I 
tracked many wild beasts in the sand, but never saw one ; 
we also found many huts and wigwams, but never met with 
an Indian. The mouth is in the west part of Port Famine.” 
SEDGEWICK, a hamlet of England, in Westmoreland ; 
4f miles south of Kendal. 
SEDGHILL, a hamlet of England, in Northumberland ; 
6 miles from Newcastle. 
SEDGHILL, a parish of England, in Wiltshire; 5 miles 
south-west of Hindoo. 
SEDGWICK, a sea-port and post township of the United 
Slates, in Hancock county, Maine, on the east side of 
Penobscot bay; 269 miles north-east of Boston. Popula¬ 
tion 1352. 
SE'DGY, adj. Overgrown with narrow flags. 
On the gentle Severn's sedgy bank. 
In single opposition, hand to hand. 
He did confound the best part of an hour. 
In changing hardiment with great Glendower. Shakspeare, 
SEDHOUT, a celebrated fortress of Hindostan, province 
of Golcondah, and district of Cuddapah. It is the capital 
of a small district of the same name, and was taken by the 
celebrated Meer Joomla, about the year 1650. At this 
period, Sedhout and the adjoining district, were celebrated 
for their diamond mines, but which do not now exist. The 
fortress is situated G miles north-east of Cuddapah; and be¬ 
longs to the British. 
SE'DIMENT, s. [sediment, Fr., sedimentum, Eat.] 
That which subsides or settles at the bottom.—It is not bare 
agitation, but th&serliment at the bottom, that troubles and 
defiles the water. South. 
SEDISZOW, a small town of Austrian Poland ; 44 miles 
south of Sendomir. 
SEDITION, s. [sedition, Fr., seditio, Latin.] A tu¬ 
mult ; an insurrection ; a popular commotion; an uproar. 
That sunshine brew’d a show’r for him. 
That wash’d his father’s fortunes forth of France, 
And heap'd sedition on his crown at home. Shakspeare. 
SEDITIONARY, s. An inciler to sedition; a promoter 
of insurrection. Unused. —Barabbas was a thief, murderer, 
seditionary. Bp. Hall. 
SEDITIOUS, ad/, [seditieu.r, Fr., seditiosus, Lat.] 
Factious with tumult; turbulent. 
The cause, why I have brought this anny hither, 
Is to remove proud Somerset from the king. 
Seditious to his grace and to the state. Shakspea?'e. 
Thou return’st . 
From flight, seditious angel. Milton. 
SEDITIOUSLY, adv. Tumultuously, with turbulence. 
SEDITIOUSNESS, s. Turbulence; disposition to sedi¬ 
tion. 
SEDLESCOMB, a parish- of England, in Sussex, where 
there is a medicinat spring, similar to that at Tunbridge 
Wells; 3 miles north-east of Battle'. Population 506. 
SEDLEY, 
