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Webster 1913 Edition


Stet

Stet

(stĕt)
,
L.,
s
ubj.
3d p
ers.
s
ing.
of
stare
to stand, remain.
[See
Stand
.]
(Print.)
Let it stand; – a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.

Stet

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Stetted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Stetting
.]
(Print.)
To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter;
as, the proof reader
stetted
a deled footnote
.