set down
- to put into position; to place; to rest on a surface or on the ground
Wiktionary
verb
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.”
- To land.
“The bush pilot set down on a sandbar.”
- 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?"”
- To regard (someone) in a particular way; to put down as.
“I set him down as an idiot.”