sitten

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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