SEAT, n. [L. sedes, situs.]

1. That on which one sits; a chair, bench, stool or any other thing on which a person sits.

Christ--overthrew the tables of the money changers and the seats of them that sold doves. Matt. 21.

2. The place of sitting; throne; chair of state; tribunal; post of authority; as the seat of justice; judgment-seat.

3. Mansion; residence; dwelling; abode; as Italy the seat of empire. The Greeks sent colonies to seek a new seat in Gaul.

In Albe he shall fix his royal seat. Dryden.

4. Site; situation. The seat of Eden has never been incontrovertibly ascertained.

5. That part of a saddle on which a person sits.

6. In horsemanship, posture or situation of a perosn on horseback.

7. A pew or slip in a chruch; a place to sit in.

8. The place where a thing is settled or established. London is the seat of business and opulence. So we say, the seat of the muses,the seat of arts, the seat of commerce.

SEAT, v.t.

1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down. We seat ourselves; we seat our guests.

The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.

1. That on which one sits; a chair, bench, stool, or any other thing on which a person sits. Christ … overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. – Matth. xxi.
2. The place of sitting; throne; chair of state; tribunal; post of authority; as, the seat of justice; judgment-seat.
3. Mansion; residence; dwelling; abode; as, Italy the seat of empire. The Greeks sent colonies to seek a new seat in Gaul. In Alba he shall fix his royal seat. – Dryden.
4. Site; situation. The seat of Eden has never been incontrovertibly ascertained.
5. That part of a saddle on which a person sits.
6. In horsemanship, the posture or situation of a person on horseback. – Encyc.
7. A pew or slip in a church; a place to sit in.
8. The place where a thing is settled or established. London is the seat of business and opulence. So we say, the seat of the muses, the seat of arts, the seat of commerce.

To rest; to lie down. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down. We seat ourselves; we seat our guests. The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate. – Arbuthnot.
2. To place in a post of authority, in office, or a place of distinction. He seated his son in the professor's chair. Then high was king Richard seated. – Shak.
3. To settle; to fix in a particular place or country. A colony of Greeks seated themselves in the south of Italy; another at Massilia is Gaul.
4. To fix; to set firm. From their foundations, loosening to and fro, / They pluck'd the seated hills. – Milton.
5. To place in a church; to assign seats to. In New England, where the pews in churches are not private property, it is customary to seat families for a year or longer time; that is, assign and appropriate seats to their use.
6. To appropriate the pews in, to particular families; as, to seat a church.
7. To repair by making the seat new; as, to seat a garment.
8. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as, to seat a country. [Not much used.] – Stith, Virg.

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.
   
   

   And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. Matt. xxi. 12.

2. 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.

3. To rest; to lie down.
   
   
   [Obs.] Spenser.
4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.
7. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
8. 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.
9. To fix; to set firm.
   
   

   From their foundations, loosening to and fro,
   They plucked the seated hills. Milton.

10. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
    
    

    She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount. G. Eliot.

11. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.
    
    
    [Obs.] W. Stith.
12. A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
    
    

    Seat worm (Zoöl.), the pinworm.

13. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.