SIST

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop.

2.
v.

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.

3.
n.

A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings. Burril.

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