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It can hardly be wondered at that Lady Lufton should not like Chaldicotes The Chaldicotes set, as Lady Lufton called them, were in every way opposed to what a set should be according to her ideas.

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  1. transitive verb To put in a specified position; place: set a book on a table.
  2. transitive verb To put into a specified state: set the prisoner at liberty.
  3. transitive verb To put into a stable position: set the fence post into a bed of concrete.
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  • Barring some sort of freakish bad beat, or the rare occurrence of losing out to a higher set-and you're pretty much destined to lose a big chunk of chips whenever that happens-your set is a huge favorite to drag the pot. —  Poker Player Newspaper Online
  • I didn't really think I had a reason to buy a stationary set, but now that I see all of borders and other design elements I think this set is a must have. —  {capture the moment}
  • Thank you. please help activate my set for mms communication. my set is a NEC616v with capacity for mms. thank you. —  Mobile Africa
  • This set was a perfect illustration of the savings that digital can offer: Library of NT Studies: —  Logos Bible Software Blog
  • While the shortness of their set was a disappointment to many, they packed those two hours full of their most rocking stuff. —  Ohmpark
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  1. Middle English setten, from Old English settan; see sed- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English sette, from Old French, from Medieval Latin secta, retinue, from Latin, faction; see sect.

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  1. Early modern English also sett, sette; from Middle English setten (preterit sette, sætte, also settide, plural settiden, past participle set, sette, i-set, y-set, i-sett, i-sette), from Anglo-Saxon settan (preterit setta, past participle geset), set, = Old Saxon settian = OFries. setta = Middle Dutch setten, Dutch zetten = Middle Low German Low German setten = Old High German sazzan, sezzan, setzan, Middle High German G. setzen = Icelandic setja = Swedish sätta = Danish sætte = Gothic (Moesogothic) satjan, set, put, place, etc. (in a wide variety of applications), literally cause to sit, causal of Anglo-Saxon sittan (preterit sæt), etc., sit: see sit. Cf. beset, seize. The verb set, orig. transitive, by reason of its reflexive use, and ult., by omission of the object, its intransitive use, and by reason of its phonetic similarity or identity in some forms with the primitive verb sit (also dial. set, obsolete or dial. preterit and past participle set), has become more or less confused and involved in its later uses. In the sense ‘sink,’ as the sun or stars, it is partly of Scandinavian origin, from Icelandic reflexive setask, set, as the sun, etc. Many uses are highly idiomatic, the verb, like put, its nearest equivalent, and do, make, get, etc., having become of almost universal application, and taking its distinctive color from the context.
  2. Early modern English also sett (still used archaically), sette; from set, v. According to Skeat, set, in the sense of ‘a number of things or persons belonging together,’ etc., is a corruption of sept and ult. of sect.
  3. A variant of sit.
 

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