Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SIT
SIT, v.t.
- To keep the seat upon. He sits a horse well. [This phrase is elliptical.]
- To sit me down, to sit him down, to sit them down, equivalent to I seated myself, &c. are familiar phrases used by good writers, though deviations from strict propriety. They sat them down to weep. Milton.
- “The court was sat,” an expression of Addison, is a gross impropriety.
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