To set down Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions

1. . (a) To enter in writing; to register.

   Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army. Clarendon.

   (b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.

   This law we may name eternal, being that order which God . . . hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by. Hooker.

   (c) To humiliate.