Definition of settle

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Settle (n.) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.

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Ordinary :: Ordinary (a.) According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.
Mutable :: Mutable (a.) Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle.
Opinionable :: Opinionable (a.) Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine..
Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.
Postnuptial :: Postnuptial (a.) Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife..
Exorbitant :: Exorbitant (a.) Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous.
Harmonite :: Harmonite (n.) One of a religious sect, founded in Wurtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony..
Administer :: Administer (v. t.) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor..
Moesogothic :: Moesogothic (a.) Belonging to the Moesogoths, a branch of the Goths who settled in Moesia..
Colonize :: Colonize (v. i.) To remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony..
Endowment :: Endowment (n.) That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college..
Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To become calm; to cease from agitation.
Compound :: Compound (v. t.) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt..
Conventionary :: Conventionary (a.) Acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The act of setting, or the state of being settled..
Commove :: Commove (v. t.) To put in motion; to disturb; to unsettle.
Readjust :: Readjust (v. t.) To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.
Jointure :: "Jointure (n.) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower..
Indefinitely :: Indefinitely (adv.) In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely..
Accommodate :: Accommodate (v. t.) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc..
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