withset
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Etymology edit
From Middle English withsetten (“to resist, set against”), from Old English wiþsettan (“to resist; condemn”), equivalent to with- (“against”) + set.
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withset (third-person singular simple present withsets, present participle withsetting, simple past and past participle withset)
- (obsolete, transitive) To set oneself against; oppose; resist.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be set against.
- R. of Brunne
- Their way he them withset.
- R. of Brunne
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To set (a place) with an ambush.
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