sitteth

English

Etymology

sit +‎ -eth

Verb

sitteth

(archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative of sit
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 17:15:
  And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, section XI:
  A perfect reason in the central brain,
  Which has no power, but sitteth wan and cold,
  [...] and trieth vainly
  To cheat itself refusing to behold.

Anagrams

hit test, hittest, tettish

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