What is "quiescently"

Usage examples of "quiescently".

I can exploit them, as I did tonight, or I can make them lie quiescently by my side like a slumbering lover.

If Chavez was even remotely correct, we would require not only xenobotanists and xenobiologists but an entire investigation team from Worlds Federated to examine our intrusion into a domain that had not, after all, been abandoned by its occupants like a Marie Celeste but had simply been lying fallow - with the indigenous natives quiescently in residence.