GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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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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Seating (sētˈĭng), n.
1. The act of providing with a seat or seats; as, “the seating of an audience”.
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2. The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, “cane seating”.
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