Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To set against; resist; oppose; withstand.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To set against; to oppose.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To set oneself against; oppose; resist.
  • verb intransitive To be set against.
  • verb transitive, Scotland To set (a place) with an ambush.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English withsetten ("to resist, set against"), from Old English wiþsettan ("to resist; condemn"), from wiþ- ("against") + settan ("to place, set")

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