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Definition of Settle on
1. Verb. Become fixed (on). "Her eyes fixated on a point on the horizon"
Definition of Settle on
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To make a decision or selection; to decide. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Settle On
Literary usage of Settle on
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"If any citizen of the United States, or other person not being an NO citizen of
united Indian, shall attempt to settle on any of the Creeks lands, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, John Leycester Adolphus (1832)
"The question is, whether the pauper is to be considered as having come to settle
on the tenements in Sculcoates on the 25th of October or the 23d of ..."
3. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... i740. to look for some Place to settle on, where they may be 3^y more easy,
not liking (it seems) the Situation of Affairs at present, where they were. ..."
4. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1847)
"They settle on Rhode Island. — Williams's Agency in the Purchase of the Island.
— Relations of the Colony at Providence with Massachusetts. ..."
5. The Rights of Man to Property!: Being a Proposition to Make it Equal Among by Thomas E. Skidmore (1829)
"As well might the squatters, as they are called, who settle on our public lands,
without the consent of the nation, contend that possession gives them a ..."
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