Definition of "situate"

situate

/ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.eɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present situates, present participle situating, simple past and past participle situated
1. (transitive) To place on or into a physical location.
2. (transitive) To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle and often used figuratively.
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  Other critiques have not focussed on the lexicography but rather have situated Hobson-Jobson within a larger postcolonialist critique of the British imperial project.
  2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, page 487
  In the following sections, I situate my work more explicitly within several contemporary contexts.
  2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 7
adjective
comparative more situate, superlative most situate
1. (now rare) Situated.
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  Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […].
  1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps
  Pleasure situate in hill and dale.
  1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  […] the farm Kafferskraal No. 62 is not situate within a released area and its acquisition by the South African Native Trust is consequently not contemplated.
  1938, letter from South African Secretary for Native Affairs to N L Henwood
2. (heraldry) Situated; located.
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  [...] graunted unto ye sayd Arthure Herrys for his Creast on the heaulme a Stagges head losengy couppe siluer & gules horned gold situate on a wreathe gold & azure mantelled gules doubled siluer which togither w ye sayd ancient Armes viz […] In the yere of our Lord God MCCCCClxxviij […]
  1917, Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica, page 218
  The arms of the College of Surgeons in Endinburgh, I fancy, afford the only instance of what is presumably a corpse, the blazon being: "Azure, a man (human body) fesswise between a dexter hand having an eye on the palm issuing out of a cloud downward and a castle situate on a rock proper, within a bordure or charged with several instruments peculiar to the art (sic); on a canton of the first a saltire argent surmounted of a thistle vert, crowned of the third."
  2013, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide To Heraldry

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