set down

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Verb

set down

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To write.

   I set down this account so others may benefit from my experience.

   • Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army.

2. (transitive) To fix; to establish; to ordain.

   • This law we may name eternal, being that order which God […] hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by.

3. (transitive, , especially British) To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To humiliate.

Synonyms

• (deposit) drop off

Translations

• French: déposer
• German: hinsetzen, hinlegen, ablegen, absetzen
• Italian: deporre, posare
• Portuguese: pousar
• Spanish: posar

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