Word Meanings - SETTEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once.
Related words: (words related to SETTEE)
- SEVERAL
1. Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. 2. Diverse; different; various. Spenser. Habits and faculties, - SEVERALITY
Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall. - SEVERALLY
Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey. - SEVERALTY
A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty , an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in - ACCOMMODATENESS
Fitness. - ACCOMMODATE
commodare to make fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See 1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. "They accomodate their counsels to his inclination." Addison. - ACCOMMODATELY
Suitably; fitly. - SEVERALIZE
To distinguish. - DISACCOMMODATE
To put to inconvenience; to incommode. Bp. Warburton.