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