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▪ I. situate, ppl. a.|ˈsɪtjuːət|
Also 6 situat, sytuate, 6–8 scituate.
[ad. late L. situāt-us, pa. pple. of *situāre (used in med.L.), f. L. situs site.]
= situated ppl. a.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. Pref. p. i, Mortall folke are marueylously separated, both by lande and water, and right wonderously sytuate. 1553Eden Treat. New Ind. (Arb.) 8 The Ilandes of Molucca situate in the mayne Easte Indian Sea. 1648Wilkins Math. Magic i. v. 34 Now the body being situate in this rectangular forme, the weight AB must needs be augmented. 1705tr. Bosman's Guinea 336 Popo being an Island Scituate in the midst of the River. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xviii. II. 107 This large and populous city was situate about two days journey from the Tigris. 1845Herschel Ess. (1857) 666 A planet situate on its surface and forming a part of it. 1885M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird III. 145 The château..was situate on low ground.
▪ II. situate, v.|ˈsɪtjuːeɪt|
Also 6 situat, cituat, cytuat(e, 7 scituate.
[f. ppl. stem of med.L. situāre: see prec.]
1. a. trans. To give a site to; to place, locate. Now often fig., to establish or indicate the place of, to put in a context, to bring into defined relations.
c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 940 To situat, colloquer. 1542Boorde Dyetary i. (1870) 232 Where a man shulde cytuate or sette his mancyon place. 1632Lithgow Trav. v. 189 Tripoly..hath three times beene situated, and remoued in three sundry places. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece ii. x. (1715) 292 The rapidness of the Torrent carry'd back those Islands.., not situating them in the same place as at first. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 86/1 The Ancients dedicated their Buildings.., and situated them in the best air they cou'd find out. 1953Sunday Times 20 Sept. 5/7 From Baudelaire to Balchin, Swinburne to Sansom, Virginia Woolf to Angus Wilson, he situates us all, and hands out a ticket to the celestial garden-party of modern literature which assigns us to our table. 1961Encounter May 49/2 The key to ‘situating’ her..is to grasp..that she was not an ‘Edwardian natural’ at all. 1964E. Palmer tr. Martinet's Elem. General Linguistics ii. 44 Their linguistic behaviour, whereby maison appears in exactly the same contexts in which I would situate it myself. 1973Mod. Eucharistic Agreement 74 We have sought..to situate the role of the presiding minister in relation to the sacerdotal ministry of the Church. 1977Proc. Roy. Soc. Med. LXX. 425/2 Since I know less about medicine than about Molière, I have woven into my paper a brief review of his career with a view to situating the seven comedies in which medicine is parodied or satirized. 1982Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Aug. 872/1 The title of John Allett's book indicates that this is where he wishes to situate Hobson.
b. With personal object.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 23/2 We must first of all situate the patient towardes the light. 1652Persuasive 4 They meant to situate them in a higher condition then they were themselves. 1790Bystander 178 It was thought proper to situate them between the audience and the stage. 1824Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1853 I. 1 note, As a painter would situate a beggar under a triumphal arch.
refl.1791Paine Rights of Man (ed. 4) 107 They situated themselves in three separate chambers.
c. To subject to circumstances; to place in a certain situation.
1896Harper's Mag. Apr. 656/2 He would violate his promises, and that would so situate her that she would not be able to keep hers.
†2. intr. To have, or take up, a certain situation or position. Obs.
1583T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. iv. 46 b, The Countries nere aboute Friselande scituatyng betweene Eems, and Lauwers. 1627Hakewill Apol. (1630) 286 As many steeles as touch that vertuous stone..Together move themselves, and situate together.
Hence ˈsituating vbl. n.
1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 84/1 The Ancients in the situating of their smaller Temples..turned their fronts so as they might be seen from the Sea. |