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Sitten
Definitions
- 1 Seated. Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
"The tailȝeour was no thing weill sittin, He left the sadill."
- 2 Settled; stationary; not easily stirred or moved.
"Their fire edge might help to kindle-up old sitten-up professours."
- 1 past participle of sit; alternative form of sat. UK, archaic, dialectal, form-of, participle, past
"For though we your brethren, who heretofore by our vocation have sitten in the chair of Moses, and be ghostly captains as Moses and Joshua unto you; [...]"
- 2 plural simple present of sit form-of, obsolete, plural, present
"Such merimake holy saints doth queme, But we here sytten as drownd in a dreme."
Etymology
From Middle English siten, seten, from Old English seten, ġeseten, past participle of sittan (“to sit”). Equivalent to sit + -en (past participle). Cognate with Dutch gezeten, German gesessen.
From Middle English siten, seten, from Old English seten, ġeseten, past participle of sittan (“to sit”). Equivalent to sit + -en (past participle). Cognate with Dutch gezeten, German gesessen.
From Middle English sitten, equivalent to sit + -en (plural present).
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