Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word setten.

Examples

  • We could leave th beds out an have what they call a setten room—a front room they mean—like Miz Hull’s, where a body don’t eat ner sleep neither.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • And at grete festes and for straungeres, thei setten formes and tables, as men don in this contree: but thei had lever sytten in the erthe.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And the Jewes setten him in a chayere and cladde him in a mantelle; and there made thei the croune of jonkes of the see; and there thei kneled to him, and skornede him, seyenge, Ave, Rex Judeorum, that is to seye,

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And in that weye is the tombe of Rachelle, that was Josephes modre, the patriarke; and sche dyede anon, aftre that sche was delyvered of hire sone Beniamyn; and there sche was buryed of Jacob hire husbonde: and he leet setten 12 grete stones on here, in tokene that sche had born 12 children. 90

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • After men setten him upon a blak stede, and so men bryngen him to a cheyere fulle richely arrayed, and there thei crownen hym.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And zee schulle undirstonde, that whan grete festes and solempnytees of that ydole, as the dedicacioun of the chirche, and the thronynge of the ydole bethe, alle the contree aboute meten there to gidere; and thei setten this ydole upon a chare with gret reverence, wel arrayed with clothes of gold, of riche clothes of

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And on the heighte of that pynacle, the Jewes setten Seynt Jame, and casted him down to the erthe, that first was Bisschopp of Jerusalem.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And on the morwe, thei chosen him to ben here emperour: and thei setten him upon a blak fertre; and aftre that, thei liften him op with gret solempnytee, and thei setten him in a chayer of gold, and diden hym alle maner of reverence; and thei cleped him, Chan, as the white knyght called him.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And zee schulle undirstonde, that whan grete festes and solempnytees of that ydole, as the dedicacioun of the chirche, and the thronynge of the ydole bethe, alle the contree aboute meten there to gidere; and thei setten this ydole upon a chare with gret reverence, wel arrayed with clothes of gold, of riche clothes of

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • And at grete festes and for straungeres, thei setten formes and tables, as men don in this contree: but thei had lever sytten in the erthe.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.