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  • Swá micle swá sé bið beforan ðe on ðǽm stóle sitt ðǽm óðrum ðe ðǽr ymb stondað, Past. 435, 27. I α. to sit on an animal, to ride :-- Þá hé on þám horse sæt

    when he was riding on the horse,

      Bd. 3, 14; Sch. 257, 10.

  • Wearð his hors ofslagen þe hé on sæt

    the horse he was riding was killed,

      Chr. 1079; P. 214, 6.

  • Wæs his þeáw ꝥ hé wolde sittan on þám horse þe hé mihte findan forcúþlocost,

      Gr. D. 34, 9.

  • Þ úhte unc ꝥ wit geségon sittan twégen men on twám olfendum and þá efstan mid þǽre mǽstan hrædnesse,

      Hml. A. 206, 361.

  • Him cóm ongǽn se ealda feónd sittende on ánum múle on lǽces ansýne, Gr. D. 161, 1. I b. add :-- Hié hiene méðigne on cneówum sittende métton, Ors. 3, 9; S. 134, 31. I d. of an animal at rest :-- Geseah hé þǽr ánne pytt and þreó heorda sceúpa sittende (accubantes) wið þone pytt, Gen. 29, 2. II a.

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    :-- Siþþan sǽton þá Gotan þǽr on lande,
      Ors. 6, 38; S. 298, 3.

  • Godwine eorl and Harold and seó cwén sǽton on heora áre,

      Chr. 1052; P. 182, 7.

  • Bútan hié þá burg forléten, and ꝥ nán ne sǽte hiere x mílum neáh. Ors. 4,

      13; S. 210, 22.

  • Gemong him mid sibbe sittan

    to settle peaceably amongst them,

      2, 8; S. 94, 10: 6, 34; P. 290, 23.

  • Þæt folc sum hé þǽr sittan lét, sum þonan ádræfde

    some of the people he left where they were, some he expelled,

      3, 9 ; S. 126, 15. (a 1) :-- His here . . .
    sum ymb þá burg sæt, Ors. 3, 7; S. 116, 16.

  • Ðǽr se consul on tirde sætt

    where the consul was encamped,

      Ors. 4, 10; S. 198, 12.

  • Hí x geár ymbe þá burg

    (Troy)

    sittende wǽron and feohtende,
      1, 11; S. 50, 13.
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  • Be blǽdrum ðe on mannes nebbe sittað,

      Lch. i. 86, 6.
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  • þǽr sæt on þám lande swýðe swýþlic hungor

    vehemens fames incubuerat,

      Gr. D. 251, 10.

  • Þǽr on sæt mycel hunger,

      145, 5.

  • Heofonflód micel on sæt (set,

    v. l.

    ),
      Bd. 3, 24; Sch. 309, 16.

  • Þeáh ðe him ádl on ne sitte, Hml. Th. i. 614, 16. III a. of an approaching time which hinders action :-- Þone ceorl hí ne mihton byrgan, for þon þe him se ǽfen on sæt (

    superveniente vespere

    ),
      Gr. D. 215, 18.

  • Þá þá seó mætetíd cóm and eallinga seó læteste tíd þæs dæges on sæt

    cum tempus refectionis incumberet atque dies hora tardior excrevisset,

      277, 25.
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  • Ðá wæs tú geár ꝥ h é ꝥ bysceopsetl swá sæt and heóld

    duobus annis in episcopatu peractis,

      Bd. 4, 29; Sch. 526, 19.

  • Hé ꝥ bysceopsetl sæt and heóld

    episcopalem cathedram seruat,

      5, 12 ; Sch. 632, 5.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sittan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/58139.

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