Lexic.us

Definition of Set about

1. Verb. Begin to deal with. "Approach a new project"

2. Verb. Enter upon an activity or enterprise.

3. Verb. Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action. "They set about moving "; "Let's get down to work now"

Definition of Set about

1. Verb. To initiate or begin some action. ¹

2. Verb. To attack. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Set About

set-builder notation set-off set-stitched set-theoretic set-theoretic difference set-theoretical set-theoretically set-to set-top box set-top boxes

set-up set-ups set (psychology) set a spell set ablaze set about (current term) set afire set aflame set ahead set apart

set ashore set aside set back set chisel set decoration set down set fire set foot set for life set forth

Literary usage of Set about

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by New York (N.Y.). Board of Education (1882)
"Taking my marks as the standard, the first set are marked about 22% too high, and the second set about ALGEBRA.—In algebra, the examiner's marks of the ..."

2. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (1898)
"... lie at once set about, visiting every part of his diocese, and in 1863 held his first synod, in which he framed a complete code of ecclesiastical ..."

3. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1874)
"The vines are set in rows eight feet apart, and about six feet apart in the rows, trained to a trellis composed of posts set about eight feet apart, ..."

4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"1033, " at nine-pins or ten-banes they have one larger bone set about a yard before the rest call'd the bartle, and to knock down the ..."

Other Resources: