![]() 1300 as "display (for sale) " to set up shop "commence doing business" is from c. ![]() The notion of "fix the value of" is behind old phrases such as set at naught "regard as nothing." ( set (v.) in the sense of "present" is from late Old English). 1300) originally was in reference to hounds and game. To set (something) on "incite to attack" (c. transitive set (one's mind) to "determine to accomplish" is from late 15c. 1400 as "have a desire for." To set (one's) mind is from mid-15c. To set (one's) heart on (something) is from c. 1500 as "put words to music." From 1570s as "put (a broken or dislocated bone) in position." In cookery, plastering, etc., "become firm or solid in consistency" by 1736. In printing, "to place (types) in the proper order for reading put into type," 1520s. that of "regulate or adjust by a standard" (of a clock, etc.) is from late 14c. The sense of "make a table ready for a meal" is from late 14c. 1300 hence be set against "resisting" (mid-14c.). That of "determine upon, resolve" is from c. Every character at the outset of the book was fully developed so that. The sense of "make or cause to do, act, or be start, bring (something) to a certain state" ( on fire, in order, etc.) and that of "mount a gemstone" are attested by mid-13c. Many uses are highly idiomatic, the verb, like put, its nearest equivalent, and do, make, get, etc., having become of almost universal application, and taking its distinctive color from the context. 1200 that of "sink down, descend, decline toward and pass below the horizon" (of the sun, moon, or stars) is by mid-13c., perhaps from similar use of the cognates in Scandinavian languages figurative use of this is from c. The intransitive sense of "be seated" is from c. It has been confused with sit (v.) at least since early 14c. The government said that at the outset the notion of marriage itself necessarily and inevitably presupposes a union between two persons of the opposite sex and this definition is socially, culturally and legally ingrained into the very idea and concept of marriage and ought not to be disturbed or diluted by judicial interpretation. This is from Proto-Germanic *(bi)satejanan "to cause to sit, set" (source also of Old Norse setja, Swedish sätta, Old Saxon settian, Old Frisian setta, Dutch zetten, German setzen, Gothic satjan), causative form of PIE *sod-, a variant of the root *sed- (1) "to sit." Also see set (n.2). Middle English setten, from Old English settan (transitive) "cause to sit make or cause to rest as on a seat cause to be put, placed, or seated " also "put in a definite place," also "arrange, fix adjust fix or appoint (a time) for some affair or transaction," and "cause (thoughts, affections) to dwell on."
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