sitten

alternative sittin

1. UKarchaicdialectalparticiplepastpast participle of sit; alternative form of sat.

   For though we your brethren, who heretofore by our vocation have sitten in the chair of Moses, and be ghostly captains as Moses and Joshua unto you; [...]

   1810, Legh Richmond, The fathers of the English church

comparative more sitten · superlative most sitten · alternative sittin

1. Northern EnglandScotlandUKdialectalSeated.

   The tailȝeour was no thing weill sittin, He left the sadill.

   a1513, W. Dunbar, Poems (1998) 155

   1 more example

   He micht counter Will on horss, For Sym wes bettir sittin Nor Will.

   c1560, A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 38

2. Settled; stationary; not easily stirred or moved.

   Their fire edge might help to kindle-up old sitten-up professours.

   1671, J. Livingston, Let. to Parishoners Ancram 15

alternative sittin

1. obsoletepluralpresentplural simple present of sit

   Such merimake holy saints doth queme, But we here sytten as drownd in a dreme.

   1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

   3 more examples

   This were as good as curds for our Jone, / When at a night we ſitten by the fire.

   1593, Michael Drayton, “The Eighth Eglog”, in Idea the Shepheards Garland, […], London: […] [T. Orwin] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC, page 64

   While as they sitten soft in the sweet rayes Or vitall vest of the lives generall,

   1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, Book I, Canto IV

   Then listen, Thenot, to my mournful lay, As wee these willows sitten here emong;

   1738, Rev. John Whalley, (Please provide the book title or journal name)