the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Sitting
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.
(2):
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sit
(3):
(n.) A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.
(4):
(n.) The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.
(5):
(n.) The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.
(6):
(a.) Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.
(7):
(n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.
(8):
(n.) The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Sitting'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/sitting.html. 1828.
