Meaning of sitten | Babel Free

Definitions

plural simple present of sit

form-of, obsolete, plural, present

Examples

“For though we your brethren, who heretofore by our vocation have sitten in the chair of Moses, and be ghostly captains as Moses and Joshua unto you; [...]”

“Such merimake holy saints doth queme, But we here sytten as drownd in a dreme.”

“This were as good as curds for our Jone, / When at a night we ſitten by the fire.”

“While as they sitten soft in the sweet rayes Or vitall vest of the lives generall,”

“Then listen, Thenot, to my mournful lay, As wee these willows sitten here emong;”

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