Category:Sitting

Sit"ting, a.

Defn: being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, Sits.

Sitting Sit"ting, n.

1. The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies A seat.

2. A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a Church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.

3. The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, Photographer, etc.

4. 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. The sitting closed in great agitation. Macaulay.

5. The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a Book, playing a game, etc. For the understanding of any one of st. Paul's epistles i read it all Through at one sitting. Locke.

6. A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls. The male bird. . . amuses her [the female] with his songs during the Whole time of her sitting. Addison. Sitting room, an apartment where the members of a family usually sit, As distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen.

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Sitting - The attitude generally assumed in Palestine by those who were engaged in any kind of work. "The carpenter saws, planes, and hews with his hand-adze, sitting on the ground or upon the plank he is planning. The washerwoman sits by the tub; and, in a word, no one stands when it is possible to sit. Shopkeepers always sit, and Levi sitting at the receipt of custom (Matthew 9:9) is the exact way to state the case.", Thomson, Land and Book.