Definition of sitting

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Sitting (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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Unsitting :: Unsitting (a.) Not sitting well; unbecoming.
Adjournment :: Adjournment (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
Bank :: Bank (n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc..
Outsit :: Outsit (v. t.) To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay..
Calefactory :: Calefactory (n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room..
Brood :: Brood (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Sedentary :: Sedentary (a.) Characterized by, or requiring, much sitting; as, a sedentary employment; a sedentary life..
Equitant :: Equitant (a.) Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback..
Assize :: Assize (n.) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury..
Confessionalist :: Confessionalist (n.) A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession..
Up :: Up (adv.) From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied..
Parliament :: Parliament (n.) The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws..
Sitting :: Sitting (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..
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.
Loggia :: Loggia (n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room..
Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; -- used reflexively.
Sedent :: Sedent (a.) Sitting; inactive; quiet.
Wake :: Wake (n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish..
Setter :: Setter (n.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching..
Seat :: Seat (n.) A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house..
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