sitfastn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈsɪtfɑːst/,

/ˈsɪtfast/, U.S.

/ˈsɪtˌfæst/

Forms: see sit v. and fast adv.; also 1800s–1900s sidfast.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sit v., fast adv.

Etymology: < sit v. + fast adv.

A. n.

†1. A person who remains fixed in a particular place, state, or condition; a person who stubbornly refuses to change or develop. Also: a thing which cannot be shifted or removed; (hence) a deeply embedded attitude or condition. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > obstinate or stubborn person

obstinate1435

mumpsimus1530

obstinant1581

ram-head1605

sitfast1606

stiff-stander1642

obduratea1665

ironface1697

sturdy1704

stiffrump1709

sturdy-boots1762

stickfast1827

impracticable1829

mule1846

bullet-head1848

hardshell1849

die-hard1857

hog on ice1857

last-ditcher1862

thick-and-thinnite1898

jusqu'auboutiste1916

stiff-neck1921

dead-ender1956

toughie1960

1606 W. Cowper Conduit of Comfort sig. C^v Rather then we should keepe the old sent of our naturall corruption, and liue in a carelesse securitie..and so become sitfasts in our sinnes.

1648 Mercurius Elencticus No. 8. 53 How now Gentlemen sit-fasts! Must I be Indicted for telling you of your manifold Treasons, and Impieties?

1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica Viewed (ed. 2) 9 Arguments..sufficiently confirm'd by every Mariner, to take off the greatest sit-fast of incredulity.

1664 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1908) 3rd Ser. I. 694 Our olde sent and taste remains in us yet, deadnesse, securitie and earthlimyndednesse are sitt-fasts.

1834 Sheffield Independent 12 July Mr. Innocent said, it was found that some members of the committee were re-elected every year, and it was desirable that these should be changed. The Rev. J. Hanson supported the resolution, because he thought sitfasts on the committee undesirable.

1849 Alta California (San Francisco) 6 Sept. 1/5 I am opposed to such origination of such establishments, which soon become sit-fasts, and grow and expand forever.

1865 Morpeth Herald 17 June 6/4 Should any attempt be made to agitate the question, these muddle-headed sitfasts would immediately devote themselves to prove how unfit the ‘swinish multitude’ were to go about at large unrestricted. But we must pay no attention to stubborn, unreasonable people.

a. Farriery and Veterinary Medicine. Esp. in a horse: a well-demarcated area of hardened dead tissue within an ulcer or other lesion of the skin, which interferes with healing and often requires surgical removal. Also figurative.In horses such lesions are typically associated with pressure from the saddle, harness, or other tack.Also called setfast, stickfast.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > tumours on back

sitfast1607

setfast1649

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vii. 65 Theise hornes or knobs, which grow vpon a horsses backe vnder the sadle, are calde of our horsemen here in England sitfasts.

1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xviii. 317 An hard knob..formerly a Saddle-gald..is converted into a Sit-fast.

1708 London Gaz. No. 4493/3 A white Gelding full aged,..a Sit-fast lately taken out about the middle of the Saddle-place.

1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery xxxii. 264 A sit-fast proceeds generally from a warble.

1831 W. Youatt Horse x. 169 Warbles..will frequently disappear without medical treatment, but they will, at other times, degenerate into sitfasts.

1895 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 27 May 4/2 Let us get the sitfast off the back of the body politic.

1915 R. S. Curtis Fund. Live Stock Judging & Select. ix. 216 The poll and back of the ears should be examined for sitfasts, due to pressure from the bridle or halter.

1968 K. E. Weiss Lumpy Skin Dis. Virus in Virol. Monogr. 3 125 They [sc. nodules] begin to separate from the surrounding healthy tissues after about 7 to 10 days and become hard and dry to form sitfasts.

2005 W. A. Hadden et al. Horseman's Vet. Encycl. (rev. ed.) xiv. 282 The necrosed skin is commonly called ‘sitfast’, which must be removed before healing by granulation can take place.

b. English regional (northern). Such an area of hardened dead tissue occurring in the skin of a person. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > substances preventing healing

sitfast1824

bridea1836

1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ 108 Sit-fast, a false healing of a wound.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Sit-fast, a false healing of a wound, whereby is made a hard scab or excrescence.

1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 216 He's got a sit-fast in his arm.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 116/1 Sitfast,..the kind of core which occurs at times in a gathering or boil, a hard, non-superating [sic] gathering in a finger or elsewhere.

3. Originally Scottish. Any of several plants having tough, creeping roots; spec. thorny restharrow, Ononis spinosa, and creeping buttercup, Ranunculus repens.Chiefly in lists of alternative names for these plants.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > other weeds

zizanya1400

hog's fennel1525

zizania1526

eyebright1578

henbit1578

red eye-bright1657

common orache1728

sitfast1762

winter weed1787

dubbeltjie1795

red bartsia1805

tread-softly1814

rattlesnake leaf1822

popple1855

horse-nettle1860

Cape weed1878

tree-tobacco1895

king devil1898

khaki weed1907

white top1909

three-corner jack1919

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > rest-harrow

cammockc1000

ironhardOE

restelbowea1400

restharrow?1550

petty whin1551

gammock1578

ground furze1578

ground-furze1578

fin1649

cat whin1684

sitfast1808

thorny rest-harrow1822

land-whina1825

lady-whin1886

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > buttercup

butterflower1527

kingcup1538

crow-flower1597

king-cob1597

gilt cup1610

pissabed1640

Goldilocks1650

craysec1652

buttercup1688

yellow cup1824

bulbous buttercup1844

goldballs1854

Meg-many-feet1878

clovewort1886

sitfast1901

1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. xiii. 106 Of this sort are some species of the thistle, and what the ploughmen call sitfasts.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Sitfasts, restharrow.

1810 T. Williamson Agric. Mech. 172 The fibres..are more subject to snap when the share is strained by any sit-fast, root, &c.

1901 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 7 12 Ranunculus repens L. Sitfast. Divisions all. Very common.

1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land 217 Ononis arvensis..rest-harrow, rust-burn, sidfast, sitfast.

2007 L. S. Nelson et al. Handbk. Poisonous & Injurious Plants (ed. 2) 248 Ranunculus species Family: Ranunculaceae... Common Names: Bassinet, Blister Flower.., Sitfast.

4. Scottish. A stone which is firmly embedded in the ground. Cf. sense B. 1b. Sc. National Dict. records this sense as still in use in Caithness and Wigtownshire in 1970.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun] > other stones

loys1295

anthracites1535

rockstone?1545

stone-glass1585

milkstone1598

fieldstone1649

pebble1669

ballstone1726

grain-stone1756

knablick1757

found stone1800

sitfast1809

graptolite1838

bumble1839

hardhead1849

chock1894

chockstone1894

1809 R. Kerr Gen. View Agric. County of Berwick i. 35 Some [stones] are even of many hundred weights, and are called sit-fasts.

1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 271 Sitfast,... 2. An earthfast stone.

†5. English regional (Yorkshire). A drunkard; someone who sits and drinks for extended periods. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess

houndOE

drinkerc1200

keach-cup?c1225

gulchcupa1250

bollerc1320

taverner1340

ale stake?1515

wine-bibber1535

bibber1536

swill-bowl1542

malt-wormc1550

rinse-pitcher1552

bibblera1556

ale knight1556

tosspot1568

ring-pigger1570

troll-the-bowl1575

malt-bug1577

gossip-pint-pot1580

black pot1582

alehouse knight1583

worrier1584

suck-spigot1585

bezzle1592

bezzlera1593

cup-leech1593

soaker1593

carouser1596

barley-cap1598

swiller1598

rob-pot1599

Philistine1600

sponge1600

wine-knight1601

fill-knaga1605

reel-pot1604

faithful1609

fill-pot1609

bouser1611

spigot-sucker1611

suck-pint1611

whip-can1611

bib-all-night1612

afternoon man1615

potling1616

Bacchanalian1617

bombard1617

pot-shot1617

potisuge1620

trougha1625

tumbrila1625

borachioa1627

pot-leech1630

kill-pota1637

biberon1637

bang-pitcher1639

son of Bacchusc1640

shuffler1642

suck-bottlea1652

swill-pot1653

poter1657

potatora1660

old soaker1665

fuddle cap1666

old toast1668

bubber1669

toper1673

ale-toast1691

Bacchant1699

fuddler1699

swill-belly1699

tickle-pitcher1699

whetter1709

draughtsmanc1720

bender1728

drammer1740

dram-drinker1744

drammist1756

rum-bud1805

siper1805

Bacchanal1812

boozera1819

rum-sucker1819

soak1820

imp of the spigot1821

polyposist1821

wineskin1821

sack-guzzler1823

sitfast1828

swill-flagon1829

cup-man1834

swiper1836

Lushington1851

lushing-man1859

bloat1860

pottle pot1860

tipsificator1873

tipsifier1873

pegger1874

swizzler1876

bibulant1883

toss-cup1883

lusher1895

stew-bum1902

shicker1906

stiff1907

souse1915

booze-hound1926

stumblebum1932

tanker1932

lush-hound1935

lushy1944

lush-head1945

binge drinker1946

pisshead1946

hophead1948

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Sit-fast, a sottish person, one who sits long or is fast bound to his cups.

B. adj.

a. Remaining in a particular place, state, or condition; firmly fixed; immovable. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > not moving

stillc888

unmoving?a1425

quatc1425

stock-still1508

stony1642

riveting1658

sitfast1669

unstirringa1684

sedate1684

statued1744

unshifting1811

stirless1816

unwaving1818

immotioned1821

standstill1829

akinetic1841

swayless1856

flutterless1873

static1910

squat1956

1669 G. Hutcheson Expos. Bk. Job xxiv. 359/2 He [sc. the Lord] quickens us to our duty, by a new tryal, when habitual sit-fast tryals become blunt, and we fall asleep under them.

1694 J. MacMath Expert Mid-wife i. v. 32 The longer false Conceptions are in the Womb, a fuller Nourishment they receive, and bigger still they grow,..and after two Months turn sit-fast Moles.

1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 40 To find the sitfast acres where you left them.

1876 E. S. Wheeler Scheyichbi & Strand 104 Even ‘the sit-fast and immovable hills’ appear and disappear, grow and waste away.

1887 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 4 Apr. 2/3 Our lawmakers are of the sitfast species; they will not adjourn under any consideration.

1917 H. H. Richardson Fortunes Richard Mahony I. ii. iv. 123 Having once got a roof over his head, he had remained sitfast.

1976 Sun (Lowell, Mass.) 27 Sept. 4/1 Life passes people by on Monday. It's stagnant and sitfast and stationary.

b. Chiefly Scottish. Designating a stone which is firmly embedded in the ground; of or relating to such a stone. Cf. sense A. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > so as to be firmly fixed > in the ground

earthfastOE

ground-fast1659

sitfast1795

1795 G. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Mid-Lothian (new ed.) App. 102 The sit-fast stones discovered by the plough.

1801 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 377 Land that is incumbered with sitfast stones, or with the roots of trees and bushes.

1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. iv. 165 An immense round whinstone, which the cultivators of the soil have not yet been able to dig up from its sitfast hold.

1825 Lett. from Irish Highlands xxx. 213 A farmer..would have to clear his land of the sitfast stones.

1880 W. Marshall Hist. Scenes Perthshire (1881) 312 The land contains numbers of sitfast stones.

1914 Sc. Land (Scottish Land Enquiry Committee) ii. 18 The tenant..generally raises and removes sitfast stones.

2018 thefarmingforum.co.uk 19 July (forum post, accessed 26 Mar. 2019) Permanent pasture that i can just about get a mower over, providing i miss the sit fast rocks.

†2. Designating a style of horse riding in which the rider remains firmly seated in the saddle throughout a trot. Cf. sitting trot n. at sitting adj. Compounds. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > stable > firmly fixed

steadfast993

fastOE

rootfastlOE

sicker1297

sada1333

well-rooted1340

rooteda1393

surec1400

surefast1533

unremoved1551

fixed1577

implanted1595

firm1600

seateda1616

secure1675

tight1687

sitfast1837

locked1895

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. vi. 69 For now no man..but will trot à l'Anglaise, rising in the stirrups; scornful of the old sitfast method.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sitfast
释义	sitfastn.adj. Brit. /ˈsɪtfɑːst/, /ˈsɪtfast/, U.S. /ˈsɪtˌfæst/ Forms: see sit v. and fast adv.; also 1800s–1900s sidfast. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sit v., fast adv. Etymology: < sit v. + fast adv. A. n. †1. A person who remains fixed in a particular place, state, or condition; a person who stubbornly refuses to change or develop. Also: a thing which cannot be shifted or removed; (hence) a deeply embedded attitude or condition. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > obstinate or stubborn person obstinate1435 mumpsimus1530 obstinant1581 ram-head1605 sitfast1606 stiff-stander1642 obduratea1665 ironface1697 sturdy1704 stiffrump1709 sturdy-boots1762 stickfast1827 impracticable1829 mule1846 bullet-head1848 hardshell1849 die-hard1857 hog on ice1857 last-ditcher1862 thick-and-thinnite1898 jusqu'auboutiste1916 stiff-neck1921 dead-ender1956 toughie1960 1606 W. Cowper Conduit of Comfort sig. C^v Rather then we should keepe the old sent of our naturall corruption, and liue in a carelesse securitie..and so become sitfasts in our sinnes. 1648 Mercurius Elencticus No. 8. 53 How now Gentlemen sit-fasts! Must I be Indicted for telling you of your manifold Treasons, and Impieties? 1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica Viewed (ed. 2) 9 Arguments..sufficiently confirm'd by every Mariner, to take off the greatest sit-fast of incredulity. 1664 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1908) 3rd Ser. I. 694 Our olde sent and taste remains in us yet, deadnesse, securitie and earthlimyndednesse are sitt-fasts. 1834 Sheffield Independent 12 July Mr. Innocent said, it was found that some members of the committee were re-elected every year, and it was desirable that these should be changed. The Rev. J. Hanson supported the resolution, because he thought sitfasts on the committee undesirable. 1849 Alta California (San Francisco) 6 Sept. 1/5 I am opposed to such origination of such establishments, which soon become sit-fasts, and grow and expand forever. 1865 Morpeth Herald 17 June 6/4 Should any attempt be made to agitate the question, these muddle-headed sitfasts would immediately devote themselves to prove how unfit the ‘swinish multitude’ were to go about at large unrestricted. But we must pay no attention to stubborn, unreasonable people. 2. a. Farriery and Veterinary Medicine. Esp. in a horse: a well-demarcated area of hardened dead tissue within an ulcer or other lesion of the skin, which interferes with healing and often requires surgical removal. Also figurative.In horses such lesions are typically associated with pressure from the saddle, harness, or other tack.Also called setfast, stickfast. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > tumours on back sitfast1607 setfast1649 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vii. 65 Theise hornes or knobs, which grow vpon a horsses backe vnder the sadle, are calde of our horsemen here in England sitfasts. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xviii. 317 An hard knob..formerly a Saddle-gald..is converted into a Sit-fast. 1708 London Gaz. No. 4493/3 A white Gelding full aged,..a Sit-fast lately taken out about the middle of the Saddle-place. 1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery xxxii. 264 A sit-fast proceeds generally from a warble. 1831 W. Youatt Horse x. 169 Warbles..will frequently disappear without medical treatment, but they will, at other times, degenerate into sitfasts. 1895 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 27 May 4/2 Let us get the sitfast off the back of the body politic. 1915 R. S. Curtis Fund. Live Stock Judging & Select. ix. 216 The poll and back of the ears should be examined for sitfasts, due to pressure from the bridle or halter. 1968 K. E. Weiss Lumpy Skin Dis. Virus in Virol. Monogr. 3 125 They [sc. nodules] begin to separate from the surrounding healthy tissues after about 7 to 10 days and become hard and dry to form sitfasts. 2005 W. A. Hadden et al. Horseman's Vet. Encycl. (rev. ed.) xiv. 282 The necrosed skin is commonly called ‘sitfast’, which must be removed before healing by granulation can take place. b. English regional (northern). Such an area of hardened dead tissue occurring in the skin of a person. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > substances preventing healing sitfast1824 bridea1836 1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ 108 Sit-fast, a false healing of a wound. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Sit-fast, a false healing of a wound, whereby is made a hard scab or excrescence. 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 216 He's got a sit-fast in his arm. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 116/1 Sitfast,..the kind of core which occurs at times in a gathering or boil, a hard, non-superating [sic] gathering in a finger or elsewhere. 3. Originally Scottish. Any of several plants having tough, creeping roots; spec. thorny restharrow, Ononis spinosa, and creeping buttercup, Ranunculus repens.Chiefly in lists of alternative names for these plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > other weeds zizanya1400 hog's fennel1525 zizania1526 eyebright1578 henbit1578 red eye-bright1657 common orache1728 sitfast1762 winter weed1787 dubbeltjie1795 red bartsia1805 tread-softly1814 rattlesnake leaf1822 popple1855 horse-nettle1860 Cape weed1878 tree-tobacco1895 king devil1898 khaki weed1907 white top1909 three-corner jack1919 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > rest-harrow cammockc1000 ironhardOE restelbowea1400 restharrow?1550 petty whin1551 gammock1578 ground furze1578 ground-furze1578 fin1649 cat whin1684 sitfast1808 thorny rest-harrow1822 land-whina1825 lady-whin1886 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > buttercup butterflower1527 kingcup1538 crow-flower1597 king-cob1597 gilt cup1610 pissabed1640 Goldilocks1650 craysec1652 buttercup1688 yellow cup1824 bulbous buttercup1844 goldballs1854 Meg-many-feet1878 clovewort1886 sitfast1901 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. xiii. 106 Of this sort are some species of the thistle, and what the ploughmen call sitfasts. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Sitfasts, restharrow. 1810 T. Williamson Agric. Mech. 172 The fibres..are more subject to snap when the share is strained by any sit-fast, root, &c. 1901 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 7 12 Ranunculus repens L. Sitfast. Divisions all. Very common. 1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land 217 Ononis arvensis..rest-harrow, rust-burn, sidfast, sitfast. 2007 L. S. Nelson et al. Handbk. Poisonous & Injurious Plants (ed. 2) 248 Ranunculus species Family: Ranunculaceae... Common Names: Bassinet, Blister Flower.., Sitfast. 4. Scottish. A stone which is firmly embedded in the ground. Cf. sense B. 1b. Sc. National Dict. records this sense as still in use in Caithness and Wigtownshire in 1970. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun] > other stones loys1295 anthracites1535 rockstone?1545 stone-glass1585 milkstone1598 fieldstone1649 pebble1669 ballstone1726 grain-stone1756 knablick1757 found stone1800 sitfast1809 graptolite1838 bumble1839 hardhead1849 chock1894 chockstone1894 1809 R. Kerr Gen. View Agric. County of Berwick i. 35 Some [stones] are even of many hundred weights, and are called sit-fasts. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 271 Sitfast,... 2. An earthfast stone. †5. English regional (Yorkshire). A drunkard; someone who sits and drinks for extended periods. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess houndOE drinkerc1200 keach-cup?c1225 gulchcupa1250 bollerc1320 taverner1340 ale stake?1515 wine-bibber1535 bibber1536 swill-bowl1542 malt-wormc1550 rinse-pitcher1552 bibblera1556 ale knight1556 tosspot1568 ring-pigger1570 troll-the-bowl1575 malt-bug1577 gossip-pint-pot1580 black pot1582 alehouse knight1583 worrier1584 suck-spigot1585 bezzle1592 bezzlera1593 cup-leech1593 soaker1593 carouser1596 barley-cap1598 swiller1598 rob-pot1599 Philistine1600 sponge1600 wine-knight1601 fill-knaga1605 reel-pot1604 faithful1609 fill-pot1609 bouser1611 spigot-sucker1611 suck-pint1611 whip-can1611 bib-all-night1612 afternoon man1615 potling1616 Bacchanalian1617 bombard1617 pot-shot1617 potisuge1620 trougha1625 tumbrila1625 borachioa1627 pot-leech1630 kill-pota1637 biberon1637 bang-pitcher1639 son of Bacchusc1640 shuffler1642 suck-bottlea1652 swill-pot1653 poter1657 potatora1660 old soaker1665 fuddle cap1666 old toast1668 bubber1669 toper1673 ale-toast1691 Bacchant1699 fuddler1699 swill-belly1699 tickle-pitcher1699 whetter1709 draughtsmanc1720 bender1728 drammer1740 dram-drinker1744 drammist1756 rum-bud1805 siper1805 Bacchanal1812 boozera1819 rum-sucker1819 soak1820 imp of the spigot1821 polyposist1821 wineskin1821 sack-guzzler1823 sitfast1828 swill-flagon1829 cup-man1834 swiper1836 Lushington1851 lushing-man1859 bloat1860 pottle pot1860 tipsificator1873 tipsifier1873 pegger1874 swizzler1876 bibulant1883 toss-cup1883 lusher1895 stew-bum1902 shicker1906 stiff1907 souse1915 booze-hound1926 stumblebum1932 tanker1932 lush-hound1935 lushy1944 lush-head1945 binge drinker1946 pisshead1946 hophead1948 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Sit-fast, a sottish person, one who sits long or is fast bound to his cups. B. adj. 1. a. Remaining in a particular place, state, or condition; firmly fixed; immovable. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > not moving stillc888 unmoving?a1425 quatc1425 stock-still1508 stony1642 riveting1658 sitfast1669 unstirringa1684 sedate1684 statued1744 unshifting1811 stirless1816 unwaving1818 immotioned1821 standstill1829 akinetic1841 swayless1856 flutterless1873 static1910 squat1956 1669 G. Hutcheson Expos. Bk. Job xxiv. 359/2 He [sc. the Lord] quickens us to our duty, by a new tryal, when habitual sit-fast tryals become blunt, and we fall asleep under them. 1694 J. MacMath Expert Mid-wife i. v. 32 The longer false Conceptions are in the Womb, a fuller Nourishment they receive, and bigger still they grow,..and after two Months turn sit-fast Moles. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 40 To find the sitfast acres where you left them. 1876 E. S. Wheeler Scheyichbi & Strand 104 Even ‘the sit-fast and immovable hills’ appear and disappear, grow and waste away. 1887 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 4 Apr. 2/3 Our lawmakers are of the sitfast species; they will not adjourn under any consideration. 1917 H. H. Richardson Fortunes Richard Mahony I. ii. iv. 123 Having once got a roof over his head, he had remained sitfast. 1976 Sun (Lowell, Mass.) 27 Sept. 4/1 Life passes people by on Monday. It's stagnant and sitfast and stationary. b. Chiefly Scottish. Designating a stone which is firmly embedded in the ground; of or relating to such a stone. Cf. sense A. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > so as to be firmly fixed > in the ground earthfastOE ground-fast1659 sitfast1795 1795 G. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Mid-Lothian (new ed.) App. 102 The sit-fast stones discovered by the plough. 1801 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 377 Land that is incumbered with sitfast stones, or with the roots of trees and bushes. 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. iv. 165 An immense round whinstone, which the cultivators of the soil have not yet been able to dig up from its sitfast hold. 1825 Lett. from Irish Highlands xxx. 213 A farmer..would have to clear his land of the sitfast stones. 1880 W. Marshall Hist. Scenes Perthshire (1881) 312 The land contains numbers of sitfast stones. 1914 Sc. Land (Scottish Land Enquiry Committee) ii. 18 The tenant..generally raises and removes sitfast stones. 2018 thefarmingforum.co.uk 19 July (forum post, accessed 26 Mar. 2019) Permanent pasture that i can just about get a mower over, providing i miss the sit fast rocks. †2. Designating a style of horse riding in which the rider remains firmly seated in the saddle throughout a trot. Cf. sitting trot n. at sitting adj. Compounds. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > stable > firmly fixed steadfast993 fastOE rootfastlOE sicker1297 sada1333 well-rooted1340 rooteda1393 surec1400 surefast1533 unremoved1551 fixed1577 implanted1595 firm1600 seateda1616 secure1675 tight1687 sitfast1837 locked1895 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. vi. 69 For now no man..but will trot à l'Anglaise, rising in the stirrups; scornful of the old sitfast method. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1606
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