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   Seat (sēt), n. [OE. sete, Icel. saeti; akin to Sw. säte, Dan. saede, MHG. sāze, AS. set, setl, and E. sit. √154. See Sit, and cf. Settle, n.]
   1. The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
   
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   And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. Matt. xxi. 12.
   
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   2. The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.
   
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   Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. Rev. ii. 13.
   
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   He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison. Bacon.
   
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   A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity. Macaulay.
   
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   3. That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, “the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons”.
   
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   4. A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, “a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house”.
   
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   5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
   
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   She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount. G. Eliot.
   
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   6. (Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, “a valve seat”.
   
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   Seat worm (Zool.), the pinworm.
   
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   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”.
   
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   The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate. Arbuthnot.
   
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   2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
   
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   Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. Shak.
   
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   They had seated themselves in New Guiana. Sir W. Raleigh.
   
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   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”.
   
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   4. To fix; to set firm.
   
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   From their foundations, loosening to and fro,
   
   They plucked the seated hills. Milton.
   
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   5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.]  W. Stith.
   
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   6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, “to seat a chair”.
   
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   Seat, v. i. To rest; to lie down. [Obs.]  Spenser.
   
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