The story
- Middle English · inherited fromwithsitten“to resist”
- English todaywithsit
From Middle English withsitten (“to resist”), from with- (“against”) + sitten (“to be positioned, sit”). More at with-, sit.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
withsit
Today it means: To resist, oppose, be set against or in opposition to. Full definition →
Middle English withsitten