set down meaning: definition, quotations

set down

verb

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.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:

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.[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):

UK, Especially 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.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Sets out as Captain of a Ship. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 159:

Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Ambitransitive To land.

Obsolete 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———”1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter XIV, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners […], London: Vizetelly & Co., […], →OCLC, part II, pages 239–240:
"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?"1907 April, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, The Longest Journey, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I (Cambridge), page 131:

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