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set down

  1. to put into position; to place; to rest on a surface or on the ground
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verb

  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. 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. 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.”

  4. To land.

    “The bush pilot set down on a sandbar.”

  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?"”

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

    “I set him down as an idiot.”