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seated |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: seated adj : (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks; "the seated Madonna"; "the audience remained seated" [syn: {sitting}] [ant: {standing}]
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