stet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stet (“let it stand”), an inflection of stō (“to stand”).
Inflected forms:
form: stets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stetted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A symbol used by proofreaders and typesetters to indicate that a word or phrase that was crossed out or changed should remain as it was.
pos: noun
examples: I believe the word "stet" is unnecessary and confusing; that it is used only on the margin when something has has been crossed off in the body of the text and is also used only with the dots (the stet marks ........) placed under the words in the body of the matter to be stetted—or to let stand as they were.
But a typographer in far-off Australia would instantly comprehend the carets, "stets," and "deles" of a Brooklyn proof-reader.
By "editor" I suppose you mean proofreader. [...] I have also come across a few pompous avuncular brutes who would attempt to "make suggestions" which I countered with a thunderous "stet!"
[O]ne particular sub-editor […] would proof-read my book reviews and archly insert literally dozens of little commas – each one of which I felt as a dart in my flesh. […] I would thank her, glance at the blizzard of marks on the galley proof, wait for her to leave the room, and then (standing up to get a better run at it) attack the proof, feverishly crossing out everything she had added, and writing “STET”, “STET”, “STET”, “STET”, “STET” all down the page, until my arm got tired and I was spent.
And my copyeditors at HarperCollins want me to use the word “commodified” exclusively, since it’s the only one in Websters. But I see the words as very different, and have issued a big STET on that one.
gloss: An order staying all proceedings in an action.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: ("To be eligible for a stet, the defendant must waive his right to a speedy trial.") (stating that when a prosecutor "stets" a case, the state is declining to prosecute it
In this jurisdiction, the system has some special procedures. A stet is an inactive court docket whereby a case is held inactive for up to one year.
gloss: To let (edited material) stand, or remain as it was.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Stet that colon.
To stet in the fifth line these words , "Any minister of the Church of England or"
I believe the word "stet" is unnecessary and confusing; that it is used only on the margin when something has has been crossed off in the body of the text and is also used only with the dots (the stet marks ........) placed under the words in the body of the matter to be stetted—or to let stand as they were.
Moreover it was unanously resolved to place a resolution on the A.D.M. agenda asking for the stetting of the recommendation that was deleted at Newport last year.
Truly, American copy-editing has fallen into a state of demoralized confusion over hyphenated and unhyphenated compounds—or at least, I am demoralized and confused, having just gone through the manuscript of a novel in which a very smart and careful and goodnatured copy-editor has deleted about two hundred of my innocent tinkertoy hyphens. I wrote “stet hyphen” in the margin so many times that I finally abbreviated it to “SH”—but there was no wicked glee in my intransigence: I didn’t want to be the typical prose prima donna who made her life difficult.
gloss: To stay all proceedings in an action.
pos: verb
examples: I respectfully submit the following statement in accordance with the order of the Convention:MAY TERM, 1864. / Indictments found....18 / Convicted....12 / Acquitted....5 / Stetted....2
A protest has been set up by the Maryland Board of Pharmacy against the action of the state's attorney in stetting three indictments against M. A. Potocki, of Baltimore, who was on trial on five charges of violating the medical practice act
Appellant contends that the indictment, having been stetted [in Maryland], it is no longer in force and effect (Applt.'s Brief, Point IV). It is submitted that the stetting of an indictment is equivalent only to a discharge of a defendant on his own recognizance.
("To be eligible for a stet, the defendant must waive his right to a speedy trial.") (stating that when a prosecutor "stets" a case, the state is declining to prosecute it
Related words: stet docket
stet processus
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