settle

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For in the settle was my Lorna, propped with pillows round her, and her clear hands spread sometimes to the blazing fireplace.

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  1. transitive verb To put into order; arrange or fix definitely as desired.
  2. transitive verb To put firmly into a desired position or place; establish.
  3. transitive verb To establish as a resident or residents: settled her family in Ohio.
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  • They offered one hundred and fifty acres to every one who would settle, and another one hundred and fifty acres for every full-grown able-bodied male slave, and seventy-five acres each for those not grown up. —  Stories of New Jersey
  • And if we begin to settle which is important work, we shall be sure to make mistakes, both in our judgment about other people, and in our sense of the obligations laid upon ourselves. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
  • Ships left every planet threatened by the Empire, seeking new, uncharted planets to settle--planets that would be safe from the Imperial Fleet because they were hidden among a thousand thousand stars. —  The Unnecessary Man
  • Madame Lepelletier has some business to settle, and will rejoin them as soon as possible There is very great confusion afterwards, but by dusk matters get pretty well settled in their olden channel. —  Floyd Grandon's Honor
  • It is not a matter he cares to have Wilmarth settle, and Eugene is not to be relied upon. —  Floyd Grandon's Honor
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English setlen, to seat, from Old English setlan, from setl, seat; see sed- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English settle, setle, setel, setil, seotel, from Anglo-Saxon setl = Old Saxon sedal = Middle Dutch setel, Dutch zetel = Middle Low German setel = Old High German sedal, sezal, sezzal, Middle High German sedel, sezzel, German sessel = Gothic (Moesogothic) sitls, a seat, throne, = Latin sella (for *sedla) (later English sell), a seat, chair, throne, saddle (see sell), = Greek ἔδρα, a seat, base; from the root of sit: see sit. Cf. saddle.
  2. from Middle English settlen, setlen, also sattelen, sattlen, satlen, transitive cause to rest, intransitive sink to rest, subside, from Anglo-Saxon sctlan, fix, = Dutch zetelen, from setel, a seat (setl-gang, the setting of the sun), = lcel. sjötlask, settle, subside: see settle, n. This verb has been confused with another verb, which has partly conformed to it: see settle.
  3. from Middle English saʒtlen, sahtlen, sagʒetelen, sauʒt len, reconcile, make peace, also become calm, subside, from Anglo-Saxon sahtlian, reconcile, from saht, reconciliation, adjustment of a lawsuit: see saught. This verb has been confused in form and sense with settle, from which it cannot now be wholly separated.
 

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