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Sitter

noun

Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934). Synonym: Willem de Sitter.

An organism (person or animal) that sits.

A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home. Synonyms: baby-sitter, babysitter.

A person who poses for a painter or sculptor. Synonym: artist's model.

A domestic hen ready to brood. Synonyms: brood hen, broody, broody hen, setting hen.

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"Sitter" Quotes from Famous Books

... namely, God Who is above all, and incomprehensible to any creature. Hence no likeness of Him was set up; to denote His invisibility. But there was something to represent his seat; since, to wit, the creature, which is beneath God, as the seat under the sitter, is comprehensible. Again in that higher world there are spiritual substances called angels. These are signified by the two cherubim, looking one towards the other, to show that they are at peace with one another, according to Job 25:2: "Who maketh peace in . . . high places." ...

— Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) - From the Complete American Edition • Saint Thomas Aquinas

... though a little too old for his short jacket. He had signalised himself by an exceedingly elaborate design for the Treasury benches. This elicited the utmost applause; for, by this plan, the seats were so ingeniously contrived, that, once occupied, it would be a matter of extreme difficulty for the sitter to be absquatulated, even by main force. Prize: a free ticket ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, August 28, 1841 • Various

Words linked to "Sitter" : brute, creature, model, uranologist, Willem de Sitter, keeper, house sitter, animate being, sit, poser, fauna, babysitter, biddy, beast, astronomer, being, hen, stargazer, stander, animal, broody, organism