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Withset

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To set oneself against; oppose; resist. obsolete, transitive
  2. 2
    To be set against. intransitive, obsolete

    "R. of Brunne Their way he them withset."

  3. 3
    To set (a place) with an ambush. Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive

Etymology

From Middle English withsetten (“to resist, set against”), from Old English wiþsettan (“to resist; condemn”), equivalent to with- (“against”) + set.

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