set down

Definitions

1. 1

   To write.

   • I set down this account so others may benefit from my experience.
   • Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army.
2. 2

   To fix

   To fix; to establish; to ordain.

   • This law we may name eternal, being that order which God […] hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by.
3. 3

   To place, especially on the ground or a surface

   To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight.

   • They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand.
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   1. 4

      To land.

      • The bush pilot set down on a sandbar.
   2. 5

      To humiliate.

      • “I,” said Binet, “once saw a piece called the ‘Gamin de Paris,’ in which there was the character of an old general that is really hit off to a T. He sets down a young swell, who had seduced a working girl, who at the end———”
      • "To snub people! to set them down! to be rude to them! to make them feel small! Surely that’s the lifework of a hero?"
   3. 6

      To regard (someone) in a particular way

      To regard (someone) in a particular way; to put down as.

      • I set him down as an idiot.

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