Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Sit (sat, -s, sitting)
sit (sat, -s, sitting), v. [OE < L. or Gk. 'seat'.]
- Settle; sink; locate.
- Pose; appear in a certain position.
- Remain; stay; continue; [fig.] grow; develop; be planted.
- Stiffen; cease to move; maintain a resting posture.
- Perch; roost; alight.
- Settle down in; [fig.] manifest; be evident in.
- Rest; endure; prevail; put down weight; [fig.] preside; dominate; reign.
- Mount; ride; keep place on.
- Exist; live.
- Phrase. “sit … down to”: submit to resign oneself to.
- Phrase. “by … to sit”: to sit by; be seated close to; take a seat near to; [fig.] watch over; wait upon; [metaphor] remember; memorialize; commemorate; [word order variation] “as the dead we love to sit by become so wondrous dear.”
- Phrase. “with the Saints sat down”: died and went to paradise.
- Phrase. “sit opon”: adorn; cover; clothe; be worn upon.
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