And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money
changers, and the seats of them that sold doves.
--Matt. xxi.
12.
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.
Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.
--Rev. ii. 13.
He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat
committeth himself to prison. --Bacon.
A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity.
--Macaulay.
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.
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.
5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted
with any mount. --G. Eliot.
6. (Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface
rests; as, a valve seat.
{Seat worm} (Zo["o]l.), the pinworm.
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.
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.