situate

• POS: Adjective, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: sit=u=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

situate, a. [LL. situatus, from situare to place, fr. L. situs situation, site. See Site.].

•  Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore.  [1913 Webster]
•  Placed; residing.  [1913 Webster]

  " Situate is now less used than situated, but both are well authorized."  [1913 Webster]

  "Pleasure situate in hill and dale."  [1913 Webster]

situate, v. t. 

 To place.  Landor.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

situate, v. & adj.
--v.tr. (usu. in passive)
1 put in a certain position or circumstances (is situated at the top of a hill; how are you situated at the moment?).
2 establish or indicate the place of; put in a context.
--adj. Law or archaic situated.

Etymology

med.L situare situat- f. L situs site

THESAURUS

situate

allocate, assign, collocate, deploy, dispose, emplace, fix, get a fix, home in on, install, localize, locate, navigate, pin down, pinpoint, place, position, put, put in place, set, spot, triangulate, zero in on

ROGET THESAURUS

situate

Situation

N situation, position, locality, locale, status, latitude and longitude, footing, standing, standpoint, post, stage, aspect, attitude, posture, pose, environment, surroundings (location), circumjacence, place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts, ground, bearings, spot, topography, geography, chorography, map, situate, situated, local, topical, topographical, in situ, in loco, here and there, passim, hereabouts, thereabouts, whereabouts, in place, here, there, in such and such surroundings, in such and such environs, in such and such entourage, amidst such and such surroundings, amidst such and such environs, amidst such and such entourage.

Location

VB place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install, house, stow, establish, fix, pin, root, graft, plant, shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit, cradle, moor, tether, picket, pack, tuck in, embed, imbed, vest, invest in, billet on, quarter upon, saddle with, load, lade, freight, pocket, put up, bag, inhabit, domesticate, colonize, take root, strike root, anchor, cast anchor, come to an anchor, sit down, settle down, settle, take up one's abode, take up one's quarters, plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself, squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing, encamp, pitch one's tent, put up at, put up one's horses at, keep house, endenizen, naturalize, adopt, put back, replace.

N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.