setting up

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Word Origin & History

Old English settan (transitive) "cause to sit, put in some place, fix firmly; build, found; appoint, assign," from Proto-Germanic *(bi)satjan "to cause to sit, set" (cf. Old Norse setja, Swedish sätta, Old Saxon settian, Old Frisian setta, Dutch zetten, German setzen, Gothic satjan), causative form of PIE *sod-, variant of *sed- "to sit" (see sit (v.)). Also cf. set (n.2).

Intransitive sense from c.1200, "be seated." Used in many disparate senses by Middle English; sense of "make or cause to do, act, or be; start" and that of "mount a gemstone" attested by mid-13c. Confused with sit since early 14c. Of the sun, moon, etc., "to go down," recorded from c.1300, perhaps from similar use of the cognates in Scandinavian languages. To set (something) on "incite to attack" (c.1300) originally was in reference to hounds and game.

Example Sentences forsetting up

He was thinking of setting up for himself by and by and of getting married.

The idea of setting up a vigorous shouting for help occurred to him, too.

He is setting up to little Eileen Pederstone too, the hound.

Jenner to dig sandstone for setting up my father's tombstone, at 5s.

He and Richard succeeded in setting up the press, and worked it successfully.

Should've remembered Tellus isn't Hodell; the tri-di's setting up!

Alfred was given the job and started to work at once setting up the pins.

Now Hannah showed great judgment in setting up as a dairy-woman.

The spring drill of 1860 commenced, and every man must have a month's setting up.

"I don't think you've been setting up your own example," Chester replied.

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