Dictionary entry

Stet (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Stet, v. 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.