Seat \Seat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seated; p. pr. & vb. n. Seating.]

1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.

The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate. --Arbuthnot.

2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.

Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. --Shak.

They had seated themselves in New Guiana. --Sir W. Raleigh.

3. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.

4. To fix; to set firm.

From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills. --Milton.

5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.]

--W. Stith.

6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)