set down verb6 •To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight.They rowed about a League; and then set me down on a Strand. — 1726 •To land.The bush pilot set down on a sandbar. •To write.I set down this account so others may benefit from my experience. •To regard (someone) in a particular way; to put down as.I set him down as an idiot. •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. — 1594 •(no longer used) To humiliate."To snub people! to set them down! to be rude to them! to make them feel small! Surely that’s the lifework of a hero?" — 1907 formssetting down · sets down