self-setadj.

1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church To Rdr. sig. ¶¶6 I like no selfe-set assertions, as if all the worlde were bound to the very breath of our mouthes or dash of our pennes, without any other Text or interpreter.

1611 G. Downame Def. Serm. Consecr. Bishop of Bath iii. iv. 94 They doubt not to prefer their new-fangled opinions, & self-set assertions, which haue no ground nor warrant in the word of God.

1785 F. Burney Let. 25 Aug. in Diary & Lett. (1842) II. 349 So hard and dangerous a self-set task.

1848 Emancipator (Boston) 9 Feb. God still overrules man's schemes, and takes Craftiness in its self-set snare.

1894 B. Marshall Story of Watch & Other Sketches 6 Here was the great self-set example of carefulness come home in this condition.

1915 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 11 628 These constitutional limitations upon the ruler's freedom of action are self-set.

1940 Geogr. Jrnl. 95 27 The alphabet certainly goes far to solve a self-set puzzle.

2015 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 19 Mar. 15 A chancellor who has resoundingly missed so many of his self-set targets.

?1792 J. Baker Picturesque Guide to Local Beauties of Wales I. 36 Darkened with crooked oaks, and black self-set yews.

1845 Monthly Jrnl. Agric. (N.Y.) July 50/2 I had 2,025 lbs. on this small piece of ground, besides four or five hundred weight of mangel-wurzel and self-set potatoes.

1884 Leeds Mercury 27 Dec. 5/3 For ten months of the year the birds fed upon the seeds of weeds, self-set corn, and vermin.

1922 Sc. Jrnl. Agric. 5 190 The seed of self-set berries of popular varieties will probably carry many characters in a blended (heterozygous) condition.

1989 Observer 16 July 37 Fennel is a short-lived perennial but reproduces readily from self-set seeds.

2002 Water Gardener July 30 In 1989 we were confronted with a jungle of brambles and self-set trees—nature had taken over.