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i. [ME. sithen, also called plane of site. sitedt (sī'ted), a. [ A farm-house they call Spelunca, sited By the sea-side, among the Fundane hills. Nuremberg in Germany is sited in a most barren soil. Burton , Anat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 59. sitfast (sit'fast), a. and n. [ sit + fast1 .] I. a. Stationary; fixed; immovable; steadfast. 'Tis good, when you have cro ed the sea and back, To find the sitfast acres where you left them. Emerson, Hamatreya. of sigh1.] A sigh. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] Whilest thou wast hence, all dead in dole did lie; The woods were heard to waile full many a sythe, And all their birds with silence to complaine. Spenser, Colin Clout, 1. 23. sithent, adv ., prep . , and conj . Same as sith1 for since. sittandly sithen cet, adv., prep., and conj. [Early mod. E. also sithens; I wil so we it my-self, and sitthenes wil I wende To pylgrymage as palmers don pardoun for to haue. Piers Plowman (B), vi. 65. We read that the earth hath beene divided into three parts, even sithens the generall floud. Holinshed, Descrip. of Britain, i. ( Nares .) Have you inform'd them sithence? Shak ., Cor., iii. 1. 47. Sithence this is my first letter that ever I did write to you, I will not that it be all empty. Sir H. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner), I. 41. Mine eyes... cry aloud, and curse my feet, for not ambling up and down to feed colon; sithence , if good meat be in any place, 'tis known my feet can smell. Mas singer and Dekker , Virgin-Martyr, iii. 3. sitiology (sit-i-ol'ō-ji), n. [ σιτίον , dim. of σἴτος , food, + -λογία, λέγειν , speak: see -ology .] Same as sitology .