sitten

verb

1. (UK, archaic, dialectal, form-of, participle, past)past participle of sit; alternative form of sat.

   “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; [...]”

2. (form-of, obsolete, plural, present)plural simple present of sit

   “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;”

adj

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)Seated.

   “The tailȝeour was no thing weill sittin, He left the sadill.”

   “He micht counter Will on horss, For Sym wes bettir sittin Nor Will.”

2. Settled; stationary; not easily stirred or moved.

   “Their fire edge might help to kindle-up old sitten-up professours.”