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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.