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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Seat \Seat\, verb (used with an object) [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.
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) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adjective
1: (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks; "the seated Madonna"; "the audience remained seated" [syn: {seated}, {sitting}] [ant: {standing}]
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