situate

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Pronunciation
/ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.eɪt/
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/ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.eɪt/ · /ˈsɪt.ju.eɪt/ · /ˈsɪt͡ʃ.u.ət/ · /ˈsɪt.ju.ət/

Definition of situate

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To place on or into a physical location.
    “The statue is situated in a corner hardly visible to the public, except through a window from an outside maintenance area situated behind the building.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To place on or into a physical location.
    “The statue is situated in a corner hardly visible to the public, except through a window from an outside maintenance area situated behind the building.”
  2. (figuratively, transitive)To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc.
    “The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall.”
    “Other critiques have not focussed on the lexicography but rather have situated Hobson-Jobson within a larger postcolonialist critique of the British imperial project.”
    “In the following sections, I situate my work more explicitly within several contemporary contexts.”

adj

  1. (archaic)Situated.
    “Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […].”
    “Pleasure situate in hill and dale.”
    “[…] 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.”
  2. Situated; located.
    “[...] 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 […]”
    “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."”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin situātus, past participle of Medieval Latin situō (“to locate, place”), from Latin situs (“a site”).

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