Tettered vs Settered - What's the difference?
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(tetter)
Any of various pustular skin conditions.
*, II.3.2:
*:Angelus Politianus had a tetter in his nose continually running, fulsome in company, yet no man so eloquent and pleasing in his works.
*1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :
*:She works at St. Veronica’s hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases—greensickness, tetter , kibes, purples, imposthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy.
To affect with tetter .
* 1603 , '', Act 1, Scene 5, 1998, Kathleen O. Irace (editor), ''The First Quarto of Hamlet ,
* 1987 , James L Calderwood, Shakespeare & the Denial of Death ,
* 2009 , Adam Thorpe, Hodd , 2010,
(setter)
One who sets something, especially a typesetter
A long-haired breed of gundog ().
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, chapter=7/2 (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting]], or [[pass, passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
(computing, programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
(sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets
* {{quote-news
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, date=June 29
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, title=Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau
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One who hunts victims for sharpers.
One who adapts words to music in composition.
A shallow seggar for porcelain.
(UK, dialect, transitive) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between tettered and settered
is that tettered is past tense of tetter while settered is past tense of setter.tettered
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Verb
(head)tetter
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(en noun)Verb
(en verb)page 50,
- And all my smooth body, barked and tettered over.
page 134,
- Most deaths are ugly, pathetic events, and Shakespeare must have seen his share of them in bodies tettered by the pox, made noseless by syphilis, or festering blackly from the plague.
page 284,
- I bent down to touch him, for my revulsion had gone, and had been replaced by a great love and sorrow; and thus I wept upon his form, that was cold like a corpse's, its wasted brawn tettered all over with sores and encrustations that were not the botches and whelks of leprosy — though e'en then I would have embraced him, as St Hugh of Lincoln kissed many a leper for the good of his own spirit!
settered
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Verb
(head)setter
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Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- The exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood.
- Some crossword setters work for various newspapers under different pseudonyms.
- She has a spaniel and a red setter .
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