Definition of settle

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Settle (n.) To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like..

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Itinerant :: Itinerant (a.) One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled..
Conventionary :: Conventionary (a.) Acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants..
Gothic :: Gothic (n.) The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth..
Positive :: Positive (a.) Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws.
Compromise :: Compromise (n.) To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
Dogma :: Dogma (n.) A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet..
Recorder :: Recorder (n.) The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court..
Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc..
Principle :: Principle (n.) A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle..
Random :: Random (a.) Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess..
Itinerate :: Itinerate (v. i.) To wander without a settled habitation; to travel from place or on a circuit, particularly for the purpose of preaching, lecturing, etc..
Resolve :: Resolve (v. i.) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event..
Adjudicate :: Adjudicate (v. t.) To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree..
Light :: Light (superl.) Easy to admit influence; inconsiderate; easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile; as, a light, vain person; a light mind..
Back :: Back (a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements..
Latitudinarian :: Latitudinarian (n.) One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking..
Decided :: Decided (a.) Free from doubt or wavering; determined; of fixed purpose; fully settled; positive; resolute; as, a decided opinion or purpose..
Doubtful :: Doubtful (a.) Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure..
Indecisive :: Indecisive (a.) Undetermined; prone to indecision; irresolute; unsettled; wavering; vacillating; hesitating; as, an indecisive state of mind; an indecisive character..
Nomenclator :: Nomenclator (n.) One who gives names to things, or who settles and adjusts the nomenclature of any art or science; also, a list or vocabulary of technical names..
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