Sitten

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(archaic, UK dialectal) past participle of sit; alternative form of sat..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic, UK dialectal) past participle of sit; alternative form of sat.
2. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Seated.
3. Settled; stationary; not easily stirred or moved.
4. (obsolete) plural simple present of sit

Example Sentences

For though we your brethren, who heretofore by our vocation have sitten in the chair of Moses, and be ghostly captains as Moses and Joshua unto you; [...]

The tailȝeour was no thing weill sittin, He left the sadill.

He micht counter Will on horss, For Sym wes bettir sittin Nor Will.

Their fire edge might help to kindle-up old sitten-up professours.

Such merimake holy saints doth queme, But we here sytten as drownd in a dreme.

This were as good as curds for our Jone, / When at a night we ſitten by the fire.

While as they sitten soft in the sweet rayes Or vitall vest of the lives generall,

Then listen, Thenot, to my mournful lay, As wee these willows sitten here emong;

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Word Forms

• sittin
• more sitten
• most sitten

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