set down

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set down (third-person singular simple present sets down, present participle setting down, simple past and past participle set down)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To write.
    I set down this account so others may benefit from my experience.
  2. (transitive) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
    • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, [], London: [] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
      This law we may name eternal, being that order which God [] hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by.
  3. (transitive, especially Britain) To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight.
    • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Sets out as Captain of a Ship. []”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. [] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: [] Benj[amin] Motte, [], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 159:
      They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand.
  4. (aviation, transitive, intransitive) To land.
    The bush pilot set down on a sandbar.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To humiliate.
    • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XI [Uniform ed., p. 120]:
      "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?"

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