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Seat (s&ē;t), n. [OE. sete, Icel. sæti; akin to Sw. s&ä;te, Dan. sæde, MHG. s&ā;ze, AS. set, setl, and E. sit. √154. See Sit, and cf. Settle, n.] 1. The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
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And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. Matt. xxi. 12.
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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.
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Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. Rev. ii. 13.
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He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison. Bacon.
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A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity. Macaulay.
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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.
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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.
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5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
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She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount. G. Eliot.
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6. (Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
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Seat worm (Zo&ö;l.), the pinworm.
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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.
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The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate. Arbuthnot.
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2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
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Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. Shak.
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They had seated themselves in New Guiana. Sir W. Raleigh.
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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.
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4. To fix; to set firm.
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From their foundations, loosening to and fro,
They plucked the seated hills. Milton.
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5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.] W. Stith.
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6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
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Seat, v. i. To rest; to lie down. [Obs.] Spenser.
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