Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

(Sattilment,) Satlement, Setl(e)ment, n. Also: setll-, setelment. [e.m.E. settlement (1626), setlement (1651); Sattil(l v.] The action of Sattil(l v., in various senses.

1. Establishing, instituting, setting up in sense 9 b of Sattil(l v. 1674 Edinb. B. Rec. X 174.
The most fitt place for setelment of the said staple port is Campheir 1674 Laing MSS I 398.
If it be fitting to doe the affairs that are intrinsecall to the satlement of a church by halves

2. Installing, investing (a person in an office) in sense 7 of Sattil(l v. 1687 Dunkeld Presb. I 480.
Non … compierd to object any thing against his setlment in the said office of the ministrie

3. Fixing, arranging, putting in order in senses 5, 8 a and 9 of Sattil(l v.(a) 1693 Lett. (Annandale Papers, R. C. Reid transcript) 31 Aug.
As for any affairs that may trouble yow … I intend to come in my selfe in order to the satlement therof(b) 1667 Laing MSS 362.
I know this tyme bypast … ther wes alarums and extraordinarie consultations to keep you bussied which I would not interupt with such inconsiderable things as I had to say until the great setlement of this new aggreement for peac gives me libertie, in the first place, to render yow exceeding thankes for your kindness to my Lord Drummond and his brother 1698 Old Ross-shire II 25.
Havinge now obliged myself in the setelment of my sone Francis patremony more liberally then I was weel able [etc.]

b. An arrangement, agreement (with a person, for doing something) in sense 13 of Sattil(l v. 1683 New Mills Manuf. 58.
To … mak ane setllment with the stoking wevers for working the pair of the new fashoned stript hoes