Seat

(sēt), n. [L. Ger. sitt, N. H. Ger. sitz, Icel. set, setr, Sw. säte, Dan. säde, D. zetel, A-S. sitel, seotol, setol, setel, setl, seat, siot, set, seat, a setting. See SIT.]

1. The place or thing upon which one sits.
2. The place occupied by any thing, or where any thing is situated, resides, or abides; station; post of authority; site; abode. “A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity.” Macaulay.

In Alba he shall fix his royal seat. Dryden. 3. Something made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, or the like. And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. Matt. xxi. 12.

4. 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.
5. A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church, in a car, &c.
6. The posture or way of sitting of a person on horseback; as, to have a good seat.
7. (Mach.) A part on which another part rests; as, a valve-seat.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SEATED; p. pr. & vb. n. SEATING.] 1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, we seat our guests. 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 locate; to establish; to fix. Then high was King Richard seated. Shak.

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.] Stith.
6. To repair by making the seat new; as, to seat a garment.