Definition of "sitten"

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

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

a1513, W. Dunbar, Poems (1998) 155

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

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

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

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

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

1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

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, […]; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Idea the Shepheards Garland, [London: Privately printed], 1870, page 64

While as they sitten soft in the sweet rayesOr 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)