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Sedentary :: Sedentary (a.) Characterized by, or requiring, much sitting; as, a sedentary employment; a sedentary life..

Avocation :: Avocation (n.) That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.

Calling :: Calling (n.) One's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade..

Misimprovement :: Misimprovement (n.) Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose.

Employ :: Employ (v. t.) To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy..

Columniation :: Columniation (n.) The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.

Theatine :: Theatine (n.) One of an order of Italian monks, established in 1524, expressly to oppose Reformation, and to raise the tone of piety among Roman Catholics. They hold no property, nor do they beg, but depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction..

Play :: Play (n.) Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit..

Active :: Active (a.) Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to sedentary or to tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes..

Bounce :: Bounce (v. t.) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment..

Call :: Call (n.) Vocation; employment.

Quiddle :: Quiddle (v. i.) To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle..

Shipping :: Shipping (a.) Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns..

Epiploce :: Epiploce (n.) A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., He not only spared his enemies, but continued them in employment; not only continued, but advanced them..

Curacy :: Curacy (n.) The office or employment of a curate.

Art :: Art (n.) The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes.

Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired assistant, official helper, etc.; specifically, in a religious sense, to obey and worship..

Pursuit :: Pursuit (v. t.) Course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit..

Quietism :: Quietism (n.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes..

Qualify :: Qualify (v. i.) To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment..

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