Set"tle*ment (?), n. 1.
The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
Specifically: --
(a) Establishment in life, in business,
condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
Every man living has a design in his head upon wealth
power, or settlement in the world.
L'Estrange.
(b) The act of peopling, or state of being
peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by
settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.
(c) The act or process of adjusting or
determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification;
liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as,
settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.
(d) Bestowal, or giving possession, under
legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal
and permanent manner.
My flocks, my fields, my woods, my pastures take,
With settlement as good as law can make.
Dryden.
(e) (Law) A disposition of property for
the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of
trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives;
jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it.
2. That which settles, or is settled,
established, or fixed. Specifically: --
(a) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment;
lees; dregs. [Obs.]
Fuller's earth left a thick
settlement.
Mortimer.
(b) A colony newly established; a place or
region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
(c) That which is bestowed formally and
permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made
to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money
or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his
salary.
3. (Arch.) (a) The
gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground
under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the
material. (b) pl. Fractures or
dislocations caused by settlement.
4. (Law) A settled place of abode;
residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or
establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which
entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or
town to his support. Blackstone. Bouvier.
Act of settlement (Eng. Hist.), the
statute of 12 and 13 William III, by which the crown was limited to
the present reigning house (the house of Hanover).
Blackstone.
Set"tle*ment (?), n. 1.
The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
Specifically: --
(a) Establishment in life, in business,
condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
Every man living has a design in his head upon wealth
power, or settlement in the world.
L'Estrange.
(b) The act of peopling, or state of being
peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by
settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.
(c) The act or process of adjusting or
determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification;
liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as,
settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.
(d) Bestowal, or giving possession, under
legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal
and permanent manner.
My flocks, my fields, my woods, my pastures take,
With settlement as good as law can make.
Dryden.
(e) (Law) A disposition of property for
the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of
trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives;
jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it.
2. That which settles, or is settled,
established, or fixed. Specifically: --
(a) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment;
lees; dregs. [Obs.]
Fuller's earth left a thick
settlement.
Mortimer.
(b) A colony newly established; a place or
region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
(c) That which is bestowed formally and
permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made
to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money
or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his
salary.
3. (Arch.) (a) The
gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground
under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the
material. (b) pl. Fractures or
dislocations caused by settlement.
4. (Law) A settled place of abode;
residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or
establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which
entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or
town to his support. Blackstone. Bouvier.
Act of settlement (Eng. Hist.), the
statute of 12 and 13 William III, by which the crown was limited to
the present reigning house (the house of Hanover).
Blackstone.
