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verb

Seat v. t. (past & past part. seated; pres. part. seating)

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."

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." "They had seated themselves in New Guiana."

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

To fix; to set firm. "From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills."

To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. (Obs.)

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

Seat v. i. To rest; to lie down. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Seated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Seated" Quotes from Famous Books

... strains of Armide echoing from the orchestra playing at the railing above the entrance. Pleydon, together with a great many others, had spread an overcoat on the masonry of the steps, and they were seated in the obscurity ...

— Linda Condon • Joseph Hergesheimer

... period the spots increase to a maximum in number and then diminish to a minimum, the variation being more or less regular. Now this can only mean one thing. To be periodic the spots must have some deep-seated connection with the fundamental facts of the sun's structure and activities. Looked at from this point of view their ...

— The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) - A Plain Story Simply Told • J. Arthur Thomson

... seated, looked about them. At the next table a party of four were in process of being joined by a party of three, two men and a girl, who were evidently late—and the manner of the girl was a study in ...

— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... white banner made, covered with the lilies of France, and with the inscription, "Jesus Maria," emblazoned upon it. At the end of two months she entered the town of Blois, where the army was stationed, seated upon a fine horse, her head bare, her dark curls streaming in the wind, an air of triumph and joy on her face. Six thousand soldiers were drawn up to receive her. But the pleasure-loving young dauphin, ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 • Various

... twenty minutes after twelve, James Long entered the office. He looked about him anxiously, and, to his relief, saw that Mr. Fairchild was present. He went up to the table where the broker was seated. ...

— Chester Rand - or The New Path to Fortune • Horatio Alger, Jr

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