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    Seat , 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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