Hypertext Webster Gateway: "seated"

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) 1.7 (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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