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Sist

Sist \Sist\, v. t. [L. sistere to bring to a stand, to stop.]

  1. (Scots Law) To stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop.

  2. To cause to take a place, as at the bar of a court; hence, to cite; to summon; to bring into court. [Scot.]

    Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle.
    --Sir W. Hamilton.

Sist

Sist \Sist\, n. (Scots Law) A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings.
--Burril.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sist

legal term, from Latin sistere "to cause to stand" (see assist).

Wiktionary
sist

n. (label en legal Scotland) a stay or suspension of proceedings vb. 1 (label en legal Scotland) To stay (qualifier: e.g. judicial proceedings); to delay or suspend; to stop 2 (label en legal Scotland) to cause to take a place, as at the bar of a court; hence, to cite; to summon; to bring into court

Usage examples of "sist".

She was sure that Viola would laugh at her and insist upon her wearing it.

No one had wanted her father to allow the Bronze Knight into Reec, but Karis had in sisted, for King Akeela would not come without him.

It was a massive accumulation of explosive, to which Dan in also sisted on adding his soap dish.

The Nun received a long conference call from her religious sistren in North America bidding her bon voyage.

While my millions of brethren and sistren chew, chew, chew their way through whatever offal comes along, inexorable but mindless, I preserve my energies for the sweetest meat: the carcass tainted by fear.

Chinese brethren and sistren had been killed by the nuns or turned into guinea pigs after all.

A servant was just assisting the removal of his elegant blue suede long coat while a second man was also shrugging, unas sisted, out of his own outerwear.

Ol ov which mite sound familyir 2 eny studints ov history & juss goze 2 sho that sum fings nevir chainj, leest not when theez pluckin hoomins desined thi orijinil sistim.

Thi song goes that thers a hunt on 4 sumbodi whoze loose in thi sistim, existin in thi kript &/or thi base-wurld & thers a pryce on ther hed.