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)
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