Definition of "set down"

set down

verb
third-person singular simple present sets down, present participle setting down, simple past and past participle set down
1. (idiomatic, transitive) To write.
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  Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army.
  1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707
2. (transitive) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
  Quotations
  This law we may name eternal, being that order which God […] hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by.
  1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, (please specify the page)
3. (transitive, especially Britain) To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight.
  Quotations
  They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand.
  1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Sets out as Captain of a Ship. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 159
4. (aviation, transitive, intransitive) To land.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To humiliate.
  Quotations
  "To snub people! to set them down! to be rude to them! to make them feel small! Surely that’s the lifework of a hero?"
  1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XI

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