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† ˈseat-town Obs.
1. A town used as the head-quarters of an army.
1591Savile Tacitus, Hist. iii. xxxii. 133 It was chosen..for the seate-towne of the warre [L. belli sedes]. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 237 Robert Bishop of Constance..chose it for the Seat-towne of the whole warre.
2. A capital town, = seat n. 13.
1601Holland Pliny vi. xxvii. I. 138 The auncient royall pallace and seat towne of the Persian K[ings]. |