| 单词 | sitten-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmassitten-up 2. Scottish. sitten-up: having come to a stop in an undertaking; stuck in one's ways; (hence) neglectful or careless of one's duty. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > that does something habitually > settled in habit sitten-up1671 set1848 1671 J. Livingston Let. to Parishoners Ancram 15 Their fire edge might help to kindle-up old sitten-up professours. 1677 J. Brown Christ the Way xxi. 314 (chapter heading) How to make use of Christ as the Life, when the beleever is so sitten-up in the wayes of God, that he can do nothing. 1974 J. I. M. Stewart Gaudy (1976) xiv. 263 Our attendance in our parish church was sufficiently regular to have satisfied Uncle Norman himself that we were not ‘sitten-up’—an expression applicable in Aberdeenshire, if not in Edinburgh, to those who are culpably neglectful of their religious duties. < as lemmas |
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