situate meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

situate

verb

/ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.eɪt/ · /ˈsɪt.ju.eɪt/

Etymology Borrowed from Late Latin situātus, past participle of Medieval Latin situō (“to locate, place”), from Latin situs (“a site”).

To place on or into a physical location.

The statue is situated in a corner hardly visible to the public, except through a window from an outside maintenance area situated behind the building.

Figuratively To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc.

The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall.
Other critiques have not focussed on the lexicography but rather have situated Hobson-Jobson within a larger postcolonialist critique of the British imperial project.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 487:

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In the following sections, I situate my work more explicitly within several contemporary contexts.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 7:

adj

/ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.ət/ · /ˈsɪt.ju.ət/

Etymology Borrowed from Late Latin situātus, past participle of Medieval Latin situō (“to locate, place”), from Latin situs (“a site”).

Archaic Situated.

Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […]., II.ii.3
Pleasure situate in hill and dale.1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

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[…] the farm Kafferskraal No. 62 is not situate within a released area and its acquisition by the South African Native Trust is consequently not contemplated.1938, letter from South African Secretary for Native Affairs to N L Henwoodhttps://www.justice.gov.za/lcc/jdgm/2002/3-00.pdf

Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Situated; located.

[...] graunted unto ye sayd Arthure Herrys for his Creast on the heaulme a Stagges head losengy couppe siluer & gules horned gold situate on a wreathe gold & azure mantelled gules doubled siluer which togither w ye sayd ancient Armes viz[…] In the yere of our Lord God MCCCCClxxviij […]1917, Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica, page 218:
The arms of the College of Surgeons in Endinburgh, I fancy, afford the only instance of what is presumably a corpse, the blazon being: "Azure, a man (human body) fesswise between a dexter hand having an eye on the palm issuing out of a cloud downward and a castle situate on a rock proper, within a bordure or charged with several instruments peculiar to the art (sic); on a canton of the first a saltire argent surmounted of a thistle vert, crowned of the third."2013, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide To Heraldry, →ISBN: