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seatn.

Brit. /siːt/, U.S. /sit/
Forms: Middle English Kent. sate, Middle English sæte, Middle English seete, Middle English–1500s sete, sette, Middle English seet, Scottish set, Middle English–1500s Scottish seit(t, (Middle English Scottish seytte, 1500s Scottish saitt, sate), Middle English–1600s seate, Scottish sait, 1500s– seat.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse sǽti.
Etymology: < Old Norse sǽti = Old High German gasâȥi (Middle High German gesæȥe , modern German gesäss ), Middle Dutch gesaete , gesete (modern Dutch gezeet ) < Germanic *(ga)sǣtjo-m , < *sǣt- ablaut-variant of *set- : see sit v.The same grade of the root is represented in Old English sǽt (= Old Norse sát) strong feminine, ambush, which occurs only in two obscure passages, and did not survive into Middle English.
I. Action or manner of sitting.
†1.
a. gen. The action of sitting. Also an assembly at a banquet. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > [noun]
sittingeOE
seatc1175
sitting down1495
session1615
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > feasting > [noun] > feaster > group at feast
seatc1175
feastc1300
messa1450
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11059 He turrnde waterr inn till win..Att an brid aless sæte.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 28471 I haue halden quen i was sett langsum setes at my mete.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 29085.
a1300 E.E. Psalter cxxxviii. 2 Þou knew mi seete and mi risinge.
a1400 Octavian 1002 He fonde the boordys covyrde alle, And redy to go to mete; The maydyn..In a kyrtulle there sche stode, And bowne sche was to sete.
c1400 Rule of St. Benet 32 Sain Benet..sais þat vnait sete es il to þe saule.
c1420 Chron. Vilod. 2747 Þis bysone mone full wery of sete he was And ryȝt gret lust he hadde to slepe.
b. concrete. A setting or ‘clutch’ (of eggs). ? dialect.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > clutch of eggs
ovation1656
sitting1833
seat1892
1892 Wild & Tame 33 A merchant in Norfolk had a seat of Duck's eggs hatched off.
2. Manner of sitting (on horseback). (Chiefly with qualifying adjective.) Also predicatively, one who has a (good, etc.) seat, a (good, etc.) horseman.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > manner of sitting on horse
seat1577
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > rider > [noun] > who has good seat
seat1883
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 115v The ridgebone ouer the shoulders being something hie, geeues the horseman a better seate.
1667 Duke of Newcastle New Method to dress Horses 205 The Seat is so much..as it is the only thing that makes a Horse go Perfectly.
1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §186. 237 It conduces to give a Man a firm and graceful Seat on Horseback.
1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 36 [Virgil] tells us the exact seat of a Roman Dragoon.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. ix. 165 Touch the Hospitaller's shield; he has the least sure seat, he is your cheapest bargain.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge x. 289 The graceful seat of an experienced horseman.
1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions II. 278 Miss Molyneux would never have fallen..for there wasn't a better seat in the county.
1891 N. Gould Double Event 295 He has a fine seat on a horse.
3.
a. The sitting of a court or the like. Now Scottish.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > sitting of
sittingc1410
session1444
access1587
diet1587
session1613
sederunt1628
seat1635
séance1789
1635 Maldon (Essex) Borough Deeds (Bundle 80, No. 2) The freeholders within the burrough summoned to appere att the forrest seate or sitinge at Chelmesford.
1638 Maldon (Essex) Borough Deeds (Bundle 80, No. 3) xs. paid to Mr. Hamound for his charges att the justice seate.
1889 H. Johnston Chron. Glenbuckie iii. 35 We had had a long seat in the Boar's Head hearing reports frae the delegates.
†b. A sitting body, court of justice. justice seat: see justice seat n. Obsolete.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun]
court1297
justicec1300
benchc1325
consistoryc1386
King's Courtc1400
open court?1456
justiciary1486
justry1489
seat1560
civil court1567
tribunal1590
judicatory1593
judicature1593
law-court1619
judiciary1623
jurisdiction1765
forum1848
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cl Of the counsell, for that it is the hyghe iudicial seate of the churche [L. ecclesiæ supremum tribunal].
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vi. xxv. 486 There were divers seates and iurisdictions, with their Counsellors and Iudges of the Court.
c. Scottish. (More fully seat of session.) The Court of Session, the supreme Civil Court of Scotland; esp. in lords of the seat.
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a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 40 Sum sanis the Sait, and sum thame cursis.
1532 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 59 To charge him to compere before the lordis of the sait to ansuer [etc.].
1545 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 5 Becaus of the fere of the pest that is laytlie risyn in the toun of Edinburcht, the seite of Sessioun may nocht surelie remaine thairin.
1574 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 378 For the administratioun of justice upon offendouris,..in the north partis..far distant frome the ordinar sait of justice.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 106 ‘Is he a lord of state, or a lord of seat?’... ‘A lord of seat—a lord of session.—I fash mysell little wi' lords o' state.’
d. Scottish. The court of kirk session n. ? Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1568 Reg. St. Andrews Kirk Session (1889) I. 313 The quhilk day Andro Alexander is admonisched be the Superintendent and Seat.
†4. ‘Stool’, evacuation of the bowels. (Cf. siege n. 3b) Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [noun]
purgationa1387
shitting1386
officec1395
outpassinga1398
subduction?a1425
easementa1438
cuckingc1440
siegea1475
evacuation?1533
stool1541
egestion1547
dunging1558
purging1579
stooling1599
cackc1600
motion1602
dejection1605
excretion1640
exclusion1646
purgament1650
exoneration1651
disenteration1654
orduring1654
crapping1673
passage1681
seat1697
opening1797
defecation1825
excreting1849
poopc1890
movement1891
job1899
shit?1927
crap1937
dump1942
soiling1943
gick1959
jobbie1981
pooh1981
1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 367 The Juice of the leaves of Betonica, in Spring, will not Work by Vomit and Seat as well as the Roots.
5. The ‘set’ or ‘sit’ (of a garment). ? Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun] > sit or hang of
sit1776
set1822
seat1824
1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance I. xxi. 237 And only look at my ruff!.. Colonel Delmour has spoil'd the seat of it.
II. Place or thing to sit upon.
6.
a. The place on which a person is sitting, or is accustomed to sit; a place to seat one person at a table, in a public building, conveyance, etc.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > appointed to or usually occupied by a person or thing
steadc888
seatc1275
placea1375
pewc1400
roomc1450
quarterc1550
instalment1589
tenement1592
berth1816
kennel1853
lieua1859
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > [noun] > place of
steadc960
seatc1275
sitting placea1382
sitting?a1425
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15394 Þat folc hafden alle iȝeten and arisen from heore seten.
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 62 And þei loven first seetis at soperis.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15282 Quen þis super was all don, Iesus ras of his sette [Fairf. sete; rhyme lete].
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. vii. 424 Kynge Arthur..maade hym knyght of the table round and his seate was where the good Knyghtes sir Marhaus seate was.
1567 Gude & Godlie Ball. 102 Full slyddrie is the sait that thay on sit.
1575 G. Gascoigne Flowers in Posies (1907) 91 Me thought I was a loft, and yet my seate full sure: Thy heart dyd seeme to me a rock which ever might endure.
1600 Weakest goeth to Wall sig. G2 Sexton, I haue sought thee in euery seate in the Church.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 137 Starting at once from their green Seats, they rise; Fear in their Heart, Amazement in their Eyes. View more context for this quotation
1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 14 Sept. (1965) I. 266 She order'd me a seat at her right hand.
a1763 W. King Polit. & Lit. Anecd. (1819) 244 He went every Sunday to St. James's church, and used to sit in Mr. Salt's seat.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 52 Till the mountain-shadow Sloped downward to her seat from the upper cliff.
1873 O. W. Holmes Addr. Opening Fifth Avenue Theatre 99 See where the hurrying crowd..Streams to the numbered seat each paste-board fits.
1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert iii. 22 Then she stalked out of the church. Fortunately we were in the free seats, near the door.
figurative and in extended use.1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles iii. 49 Thanne cometh..Anoþer proud partriche..And sesith on hir sete [MS. alteration of cete] with hir softe plumes, And houeth þe eyren.1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 87 When thou wak'st, let loue forbidde Sleepe, his seat, on thy eye lidde. View more context for this quotationa1771 T. Gray Agrippina in Poems (1775) 130 If bright ambition from her craggy seat Display the radiant prize.1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 432 For Providence..In spite of all the wrigglers into place, Still keeps a seat or two for worth and grace. View more context for this quotation
b. Hence, the use of, or right to use, a seat (in a church, theatre, conveyance, etc.). Cf. sitting n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > [noun] > right to use of
seat1520
1520 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 9 Recd or Thoms Gyles for his wifes sete iiijd.
a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) i. viii. 149 A Countesse..litle or nothing respected..in the Church, where she could hardly gett a seate.
1816 tr. V. J. E. de Jouy Paris Chit-chat III. 176 To-day it is discussed how much should be exacted for seats on the day when Monseigneur comes to confirm.
1844 O. W. Holmes Lines Berkshire Jubilee 51 We'll give you at least..a seat on the grass, And the best of old—water—at nothing a glass.
1879 J. Kerr Ess. Castism & Sectism 79 She paid a pound out of her scanty wages for a seat in the church.
c. A right to sit as a member, or the position of being a member, of a deliberative or administrative body, esp. of Parliament or other legislative assembly; a place (whether occupied or temporarily vacant) in the membership of the House of Commons, Congress, or the like.Sometimes qualified by the designation of that one of the contending parties to which the holder of the (Parliamentary) seat belongs: e.g. ‘The polls for three Liberal and three Conservative seats will be declared to-morrow’.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > seat in
seat1775
life seat1846
1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 31 In the year sixty-five..not having the honour of a seat in this House.
1787 J. Jay in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) IV. 153 Members who will find it convenient to make their seats subservient to partial and personal purposes.
1798 Tyrwhitt in Paget Papers (1896) I. 138 All those who purchased Seats are selling as well as they can.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 315 He was generally respected by those of his own profession, as well as by the laity who had seats in the Assembly.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 453 Jeffreys..very soon after the death of Charles, obtained a seat in the cabinet.
1885 Manch. Examiner 10 July 5/4 A seat on the Committee will compel them to hear..the first principles of economical science.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 309/2 By the English Reform Act of 1867..twenty-six seats were taken from boroughs... Seven other English boroughs were disfranchised by the Scottish Reform Act of 1868, these seats being given to Scotland.
d. U.S. A place in the membership of the New York Stock Exchange.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > a place on the stock exchange
seat1820
1820 Constit. N.Y. Stock & Exchange Board in E. C. Stedman N.Y. Stock Exchange (1905) iv. 68 If two-thirds of the members present are for reinstating him, he shall again be entitled to his seat at the Board.
1882 J. D. McCabe New York xxi. 337 A seat in the Board costs about $6000, and is the absolute personal property of its owner.
1948 Time 14 June 90/2 All who buy and sell on the floor must own Stock Exchange seats, which are currently worth about $65,000 apiece (1929 price: $625,000).
1972 Times 16 May (Wall Street Suppl.) p. viii/5 Among the brokers the numbers of ‘seats’ on the exchange remained unchanged at 1,366 (as it has done since December 1953).
7.
a. Something adapted or used for sitting upon, as a chair, stool, sofa, etc. Also spec. a bench to seat one or more persons; a horizontal board or chair-like structure in a boat, coach, train, aeroplane, etc.; †a sedan chair.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > [noun]
settlec897
siege?c1225
daisa1330
sitting placea1382
sellc1384
seata1400
seea1413
session1412
mastaba1603
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > carrying-chair > sedan chair
bearing-chair1352
seat1588
sedge1615
chair1634
man-litter1640
sedan1640
chair-volant1667
street-chaira1712
sedan chair1750
stick chair1800
tonjonc1804
jampan1828
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > parts and equipment of vehicles generally > [noun] > seat
seat1810
car seat1850
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 14734 Þaire setis [Vesp. setles, Trin. Cambr. seges] þer þai in con sete he kest ham doun vnder þaire fete.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1094 Anend the setis [of a bath] sette hit so withoute The fourneys.
1584 Churchwardens' Accts. S. Andrew's, Canterb. (MS) For a borde to make seates in the belfry & braggett's, vj.
1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 40v The noble men neuer goe on foote, but are caried by men in a seat.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 392 Rais'd of grassie terf Thir Table was, and mossie seats had round. View more context for this quotation
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 162 But in order due Convivial table and commodious seat..were there.
1810 E. Weeton Let. 28 Dec. (1969) I. 318 Perhaps when Mr. and Mrs. P. go to Preston..I may get a seat with them..if they go in the chaise.
1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 9 They came To a stone seat beside a spring.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues II. 610 A light chariot without a seat.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 848/1 [The Romans'] chairs, couches, and seats were of similar shape to those of the Greeks.
1976 Daily Mirror 16 July 9/6 The bosses are taking up too many first-class seats on main line commuter services.
1977 C. Forbes Avalanche Express vi. 68 Harry Wargrave occupied his normal seat..the gangway seat [in the aircraft].
b. In narrower sense: That part (of a chair, saddle, etc.) upon which its occupant sits. Also spec. of a lavatory.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > parts of chairs > seat
bottom1706
seat1778
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory > W.C. appliances > seat of
toilet seat1829
seat1907
1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xxi. 251 Miss Mirvan and I jumped involuntarily upon the seats of our chairs.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. xi. 233 Chairs without any seats.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Seat, the broad part of a saddle on which the rider sits; also, the top piece on a gig saddle.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 850/1 The seats, backs, and ends are stuffed and upholstered with rich materials.
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 518/2 Seat Covers..for use on ‘w.c.'s’.
1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart i. iv. 81 Portia..re-wound the gramophone on the shut seat, and Stravinsky filled the bathroom.
1979 M. Hastings Bomber Command vi. 155 The Elsan toilet which most crews had used with acute caution since a 50 Squadron gunner left most of the skin of his backside attached to the frozen seat one icy night over Germany.
8.
a. Contextually applied to the chair set apart for the holder of some position of authority or dignity, the throne of a king or a bishop, or the like, the throne of God or of an angel. Hence figurative the authority or dignity symbolized by sitting in a particular chair or throne. regal or royal seat (archaic), †seat-royal, a royal throne.
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society > authority > [noun] > seat of authority
seatc1175
consistorya1387
society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > seat of office or authority
seldc825
stoolc897
high settlec950
seatc1175
benchc1330
stool1390
chair1393
stall1399
estatea1475
chair of state1498
statea1500
office chaira1715
society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > regalia > [noun] > throne
kine-settleeOE
kine-stoolOE
kine-seatc1175
seatc1175
siege?c1225
kine-benchc1275
seec1300
thronec1300
solera1340
soliec1400
propitiatory1603
soliuma1806
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11959 Þe deofell brohhte iesu crist. Wiþþ utenn o þe temmple. Vpp onn an sæte. upp o þe rof..Forr þær wass greȝȝþedd sæte o lofft Till þa þatt sholldenn spellenn.
a1200 Vices & Virtues 105 Iusticia et iudicium preparatio sedis eius,..Rihtwisnesse and dom, hi makieð godes sate.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 155 King of Crete He hadde be; bot of his sete He was put doun.
c1400 Gamelyn 855 Gamelyn sette him doun in the Iustices seet.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xlii. 141 Thou art not worthy to sytt in a sete royall.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. 36 He callit þe consullis to raise ane new contentioun to þare seittis.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) i. i. 26 This is the Pallace of the fearefull King, And this the Regall Seat: possesse it Yorke. View more context for this quotation
1617 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 3) 595 The King comes forth in open audience, sitting in his Seat-royall.
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (xx. 6 Paraphr.) 116 As if by his own right hand from heaven, his holy seat of mansion, he should reach out deliverance to him.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 27 On to the sacred hill They led him high applauded, and present Before the seat supream. View more context for this quotation
1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe v. 73 I, for my self, th' Imperial Seat will gain.
1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. vi. 80 A third..Can give or take the Honours of the State, The Consul's Fasces, and the Prætor's Seat.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas lxxiv, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 53 The king would dress an ape up in his crown And robes, and seat him on his glorious seat.
b. spec. The throne of a particular kingdom.
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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > regalia > [noun] > throne > of specific kingdom
seat1600
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. i. 269 We neuer valued this poore seate of England.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 89 Of his true Titles to some certaine Dukedomes, And generally, to the Crowne and Seat of France. View more context for this quotation
1896 A. Austin England's Darling i. i. 2 And in the seat of Mercia Ceowulf rules.
†c. Apostolic seat [French Siège apostolique] , Holy seat [French Saint-Siège] , Peter's seat: the papal chair, its occupant or his office. (Cf. see n.1) Obsolete.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun]
popeeOE
apostoilec1275
vicary1303
vicar1340
bridge maker1341
Antichristc1370
vicar generalc1386
Holy Fatherc1400
servant of the servants of Godc1405
His Holy Fatherhood?a1425
universal bishopc1475
holiness1502
harlot1535
papa1555
Apostolic seat1560
vicegerent1572
man of Rome1581
pontiff1583
bullman1588
apostolicship1599
Pontifex Maximus1610
infallibleship1613
sanctity1633
popeship1641
decretaliarch1656
blessedness1670
Holy seata1674
infallibilityship1679
pontifexa1680
holyshipc1680
unholiness1682
His Infallibility1834
Pape1927
society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > [noun] > pope's
Apostolic seat1560
porphyry chair1647
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun] > office of
keyOE
popedomlOE
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pontificate?a1425
popeshipc1450
papality1483
pontificationa1500
pontificacy?1530
power of the keys1536
Apostolic seat1560
Catholic Seat1570
papalty1577
popedomship1588
oecumenacy1649
vice-godhead1659
chairship1660
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xvjv He that hathe the Seate and faith of Peter, was euer taken for his successour.
1563 N. Winȝet tr. St. Vincent of Lérins For Antiq. Catholike Fayth viii, in Certain Tractates (1890) II. 25 Pape Steuin.., Prælat of the Apostolik Sait [L. apostolicæ sedis antistes].
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Comm. Notable Thinges in tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 405 The authoritie where with they do it, is not knowen,..the seat apostolicke did neuer giue it them.
a1674 Earl of Clarendon Relig. & Policy (1811) I. 202 The reserving of the first-fruits of all vacant benefices to the holy seat.
†d. As the title of an order of angels; = throne n. (Used to render Latin sedes.) Obsolete.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > order of > Thrones
thronec1384
seat1398
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. x. 37 The thyrde Ordre is the ordre of Thrones... Ysidore & therfore Denys calle theym þt hyghest setes [L. sedes altissimæ] for they ben hye as it were by auctoryte of god ordened for to deme... Sadde setes [L. Sedes compactæ] for they ben couenable & conuenyently Joyned towchynge the Joynture & conuenyentes of domes of god.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. ix. sig. Lll.iiijv/2 Truely the Apostle sayth, Whether seates, (thrones) whether lordships, whether principalities, whether powers.
9.
a. The sitting part of the body; the posteriors. Also jocularly, seat of honour (and nonce-variations).
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun]
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arse-endseOE
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buttockc1300
tail1303
toutec1305
nagea1325
fundamentc1325
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brawna1382
buma1387
bewschers?a1400
crouponc1400
rumplec1430
lendc1440
nachec1440
luddocka1475
rearwarda1475
croupc1475
rumpc1475
dock1508
hurdies1535
bunc1538
sitting place1545
bottom?c1550
prat1567
nates1581
backside1593
crupper1594
posteriorums1596
catastrophe1600
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seat1607
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stern1631
cheek1639
breeka1642
doup1653
bumkin1658
bumfiddle1661
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B.T.M.1919
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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 189 A plaister thereof..cureth also all tumours in the priuy parts, and in the seate.
1727 J. Gay Fables I. xxiii. 80 They stick with pins my bleeding seat.
1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 84 The snorting beast began to trot, Which gall'd him in his seat.
1785 R. Cumberland Observer No. 24. ⁋12 With one kick, pretty forcibly bestowed upon the seat of dishonour.
1792 J. Wolcot Pair of Lyric Epist. 18 Behold him seiz'd, his seat of honour bare; The bamboo sounds—alas! no voice of Fame.
1797 E. Burke Third Let. Peace Regicide Directory France 5 The Turk..gave him two or three lusty kicks on the seat of honour.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 241 My seat of vengeance was firked most unmercifully.
1821 W. Combe Third Tour Dr. Syntax xxxv. 88 While with his spade the conq'ror plied, Stroke after stroke, the seat of shame, Which blushing Muses never name.
1835 T. Hood Dead Robbery iii The stiff 'un that he thought to meet Starts sudden up, like Jacky-in-a-box, Upon his seat!
1878 Athletic World 10 May 66/2 A well-ventilated [bicycle-]saddle is the best preventative for those blisters which favour the seat of honour.
b. That part (of a garment, esp. of a pair of trousers) which covers the posteriors.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > parts of > seat
doup1819
seat1834
slack1848
arse?1859
ass1888
bum1949
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. ii. 27 I had a pair of trowsers with no seat to them.
a1849 N. Hawthorne Village Uncle in Twice-told Tales Another [fellow] has planted the tarry seat of his trousers on a heap of salt.
10. The ‘form’ of a hare. Now dialect. [Compare Greek ἡ καθέδρα τοῦ λαγῶ Xen. Cyneg. iv. §4.]
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare) > lair or breeding place
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1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 25 So the wise Hares Oft quit their Seats, lest some more curious Eye Shou'd mark their Haunts.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports i. ii. vi. 139 The Form of the Hare, or as it is sometimes called, her seat.
1962 Sunday Express 1 Apr. 21/5 These lairs [of hares] are usually called ‘forms’,..though in..Kent, the cosier word ‘seats’ is preferred.
1972 Evans & Thomson Leaping Hare iv. 52 They'll dig a little hole so they can cover, so they're level with the top of the land... A seat we call it.
11. Boot-trade. An engagement to work at making boots of a specified kind. Const. of.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > boot-making > making boots of specific type > engagement to work at
seat1791
1791 J. Lackington Memoirs xvii. 114 I could not bear the idea of returning to the leather-branch; I therefore attempted and obtained a seat of Stuff in Bristol.
1791 J. Lackington Memoirs xviii. 118 I left my seat of work at Bristol, and returned..to Taunton.
1896 Daily News 2 Mar. 10/6 Boot trade. Wanted, a Seat of Woman's Work.
III. Residence, abode, situation. [Compare Latin sedes.]
12. Applied spec. (after Latin sedes) to: The abiding place or resting place (of departed souls); a position in this place. Now archaic or poetic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun]
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heavenOE
paradiseOE
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Abraham's bosomc1300
tabernaclea1340
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pasturec1384
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sky?1518
Canaan1548
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happy land1562
sphere?1592
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afterworld1615
patria1707
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overworld1858
the invisible1868
c1275 Sinners Beware 52 in Old Eng. Misc. 73 Wikede beoþ þe sete [sc. Hell] And the wurmes eke Þat doþ þe saule teone.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 25448 Reu me lauerd..and wiss me waies þare þare santes has þair seli sete.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 36 Thanne he preide Unto the Patriarch and seide: Send Lazar doun fro thilke Sete, And do that he his finger wete In water.
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 416 Behold! I se hevyn oppyn & a seatt ordand for me.
1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips lxviii. 479 The soules passing out of the body before thende & last iudgement, go right into the blessed seates.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. v. 111 Mount mount my soule, thy seate is vp on high. View more context for this quotation
1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs i. 40 How came they to the happy Seats of Everlasting Day?
1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 57 Gods, who have attained Rest in a happy place and quiet seats Above the thunder.
13.
a. (Cf. 8) A city in which a throne, court, government is established or set up; a capital.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > [noun] > chief town or capital city
headeOE
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master-borougha1325
sedea1387
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metropolitan?a1439
capital city1439
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chamber1555
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madam-town1593
capital town1601
seat-town1601
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megapolis1638
county seat1803
Queen City1807
metrop1888
Metroland1951
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1630 Priam..a pales gert make Within the Cite full Solempne of a sete riall.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xiii. 49 Mehemet..resoluing to keep there the seat of his empire.
1595 T. Bedingfield tr. N. Machiavelli Florentine Hist. i. 1 Rome, the antient Emperiall seate.
1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. i. §95. 467/2 Constantinople was taken by Mahomet, and made the chief Seat of the Turkish Empire.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 289 Peking, the Royal Seat of the Chinese Emperor.
1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece II. xii. 85 This [Miletus] was the seat chosen by Neleus himself.
1872 W. H. Dixon W. Penn (rev. ed.) i. 4 His seat of government was far away from the coast.
b. (Cf. 8c) = see n.1 Now only seat of a bishop.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] > see of
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richeOE
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chair1615
parish1709
episcopate1807
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 77 Þe chief moderchirche of al Wales, and þe chief sete [Caxton see].
c1475 Harl. Contin. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 436 Maister John Barnette, bischop of Worcester, was translate to the seete of Bathe.
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) IV. 11 The which was at that tyme nother of his Inheritaunce nor Purchace, but as a thing taken of the Sete of Wiccestre in Farme.
1582 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 474 The cheptoure of the seitt of Glasgow.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lii. 296 In England a city is usually taken to be a place which is or has been the seat of a bishop.
14.
a. The thing (esp. the organ or part of the body) in which a particular power, faculty, function or quality ‘resides’; the locality of a disease, sensation, or the like.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute > residence or seat of a power or quality
seat1390
chair1509
residence1642
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 100 The dreie Colre..his propre sete [L. domus] Hath in the galle, wher he duelleth.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. ii. 102 The heede is pryncypall place and seete of wyttes.
1681 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Stomachs & Guts vi. 26 in Musæum Regalis Societatis The said Three Ventricles..are the Seat of Tast.
1753 R. Russell Diss. Use of Sea Water 182 The Patient..complained only of those Parts, which were the late Seat of the Disease.
1777 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit iii. 27 A judgement concerning the necessary seat of thought.
1842 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. VI. vii. 98 The heart may be considered as the seat of life.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxviii. 363 Mercurial ostitis of the head is a very common form of disease: its more usual seats are the frontal and parietal bones.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxvii. 196 The air itself between the eye and the distant pines being the seat of the colour.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. ii. §61 63 The Sensorial centres whose seat is in the head.
1880 H. Spencer First Princ. (ed. 4) v. §57. 185 The string is the seat of a tension generated by the motion of the ball.
1886 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. I. iii. 237 The lesions [of chronic myelitis]..resemble acute myelitis in seat and distribution.
b. Similarly, of the soul or its parts.
ΚΠ
1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde newly Renued iv. sig. D3 v The stomack ouerchardgde..Doth make the minde and inwarde man vnfit for reasons seate.
1717 R. Bentley Serm. before King George 15 [His heart is] the seat of Selfishness.
1751 J. Jortin Serm. (1771) I. iii. 57 A mind tormented with furious passions, the seat of hopes which are disappointed.
1847 R. W. Hamilton Rewards & Punishm. (1853) viii. 365 Sin has its seat in the soul.
1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) iii. i. 313 We regard the will as the seat of all virtue and vice.
15.
a. A place where something takes place, or where some particular condition of things prevails. seat of war [= Latin sedes belli] : the region in which warfare is going on.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > [noun] > in which something takes place or prevails
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locus in quoa1638
the scene of (the) action1650
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venuea1843
society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > place of war
seat of war1673
theatre of war1914
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus (at cited word) Sedes luxuriæ. Cic. The seate or habitation of riot and sensualitie.
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xxxv. 4 Alwayis to fle iniquite And sait of syn and schame.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 131 In this seate of peace. View more context for this quotation
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. i. §2. 110 Those parts which were furthest remote from the seat of those grand transactions.
1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces i. 44 The other retires into Holland, and makes that the seat of the War.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) i. 9 A plain open Country..where the seat of War may be both Winter and Summer.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. vii. 259 Foretelling, at what Time, Rome or Babylon or Greece,..should be the most conspicuous Seat of..Tyranny and Dissoluteness.
1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 432 Forage, for which every large body of troops must depend upon the country which is to be the seat of its operations.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough xii. 173 And who shall say where guided? to what Seats Of starving Villany? of Thieves and Cheats?
1876 A. J. Evans Through Bosnia iii. 87 Many Croats and Slovenes..were..leaving for the seat of war.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) xvii. 278 The region which has been the seat of these changes.
b. A city or locality in which (a branch of trade, learning, etc.) is established.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > [noun] > in which something is established
seat1585
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xiii. 49 Galata, being the seate of trade of the Geneuoises.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 488 Cambridge..was a seat of learning about the time of King Henry the First.
1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. xxxvi. 264 So little attention was given to matters of science in Europe, their former seat.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 585 Taunton..was a celebrated seat of the woollen manufacture.
1865 H. Dircks Life Marquis Worcester i. 1 Blackfriars was..the seat of fashion.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. vii. 153 It was in those days the chief seat of the Irish slave-trade.
16.
a. A place of habitation or settlement (of a tribe, people, etc.). Also transferred (of birds).
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun]
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occupancy1864
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun]
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earthOE
groundOE
foldOE
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marchc1330
nationc1330
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terrene1863
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1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 217 Baith Scot and Pecht..war baneist all out of tha boundis, And Saxonis sone in thair saittis set doun.
?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads xv. Comm. We often see with a clap of thunder doves or other fowles driven headlong from their seates.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iv. vii. §3. 301 These Gaules were the race of those, that issued out of their Countrie, to seeke new seates, in that great expedition.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 59 Betwixt the midst [sc. the torrid zone] and these [sc. the frigid zones], the Gods assign'd Two habitable Seats for Humane Kind. View more context for this quotation
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 157 The Seat of the old Irish..was the Province of Ulster.
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. to Henry VII I. i. 2 The convenience of feeding their Cattle was even a sufficient motive for removing their seats.
1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. v. 149 Corinth, one of the principal seats of the Minyan race.
1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. 13 Central Europe was not at that time the seat of civilized nations.
†b. seat and soil [= Latin sedes ac solum (Livy)] : a region of habitation. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [noun]
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tower and townc1330
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seat and soila1400
inhabitationc1400
populationa1544
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 1749 All þe gracious godis..þat sauys sete & soile & sustaynes þe erth.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. iii. §3. 38 [Certain places are said in Scripture to resemble Paradise:] being compared to a seat and soyle of farre exceeding excellencie.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. iii. §5. 40 Or if the soile and seate had not remained, then would not Moses, who wrote of Paradise about 850. yeares after the floud, haue described it so particularly.
c. = country seat n.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > manor house
hallc1000
boroughc1175
court1297
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manor house1575
seat1607
country seat1615
great house1623
mansion house1651
country house1664
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big house1753
ha'-house1814
manoir1830
manor hall1840
yashiki1863
seigneury1895
stately home1934
stately2009
1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue iii. 85 Let Princes haue their Palaces, and great men, their pleasant seates.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 481 Rising-castle..the seat in times past of the Albineys.
1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 325 Houses, better than farm-houses, but not sumptuous enough to be called seats or capital mansions.
1812 G. Crabbe Tales iii. 45 And guests politely call'd his house a Seat.
1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) Prol. 5 And here we lit on..lady friends From neighbour seats.
1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 2 No gentleman's seat is within an easy drive of us.
†17. Local or geographical position or situation. seat of living: habitat (of an animal). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun]
walka1425
seat of living1607
territory1774
habitat1796
stamping ground1821
personal space1937
the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun]
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positure1600
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ubiety1645
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locality1656
topography1658
whereness1674
lie1697
spot1769
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possie1916
ubicity1922
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 660 We shall manifest, that either the colour or seate of liuing, cannot agree with the Strepsiceros.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. iii. §1. 33 The Lord God planted a garden, Eastward, in Eden... Of this seate and place of Paradise, all ages haue held dispute.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 13 He knew the seat of Paradise, Could tell in what degree it lies.
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 36 But the Sea..left these Shells there as Marks of its ancient bounds and seat.
18. Position (of ground, a city, habitation) as regards surroundings, climate, etc.; situation, site; hence, the position of a person or living thing with regard to habitation or situation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > actually occupied > in respect of surroundings
site?c1400
situationc1485
standing1538
seat1549
neighbourhood1668
emplacement1780
the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > actually occupied > of a person or living thing
seat1549
1549 Russell in J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1882) IV. 435 They found the rebels strongly encamped, as well by the seat of the ground as by the entrenching of the same.
a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Cijv But mee thinkes, this is a pleasant Citie, The Seate is good, and yet not stronge.
1574 R. Scot Perfite Platf. of Hoppe Garden (1578) 9 The Hoppe that lykes not..his seate, his grounde,..or the manner of his setting &c. commeth vp..small in stalke.
1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 29 You are lodged then in a verie good seate [It. In buon sito].
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 6 Although the seate of the Towne be excessive hot, yet it is happily qualified by a North-East gale.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vi. 1 This Castle hath a pleasant seat . View more context for this quotation
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 257 Hee that builds a faire House, upon an ill Seat, committeth Himselfe to Prison.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes 3rd Int. 4 in Wks. II In Siluer-streete, the Region of money, a good seat for a Vsurer.
1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces i. 44 Holland..was strong by its nature and seat among the Waters that encompass and divide it.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires vi. 1 Has Winter caus'd thee, Friend, to change thy Seat, And seek, in Sabine air, a warm retreat?
a1701 C. Sedley tr. Virgil 4th Bk. Georgics in Misc. Wks. (1702) 175 First, for your Bees a Seat and Station chuse, Shelter'd from Winds.
†19.
a. A definite place (on a surface, in a body or organ, in a series). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > [noun] > of which the position alone is considered > on a surface or body
placea1382
spotc1440
seat1543
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1543 R. Record Ground of Artes f. 8 [In Numeration] a place is called the seat or roume that a fygure standeth in.
1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 2 Of these three sortes..so meane I to intreate, that the first in the first place, the last in the last roome, and the myddle sort in the middle seate be handled.
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 9 That Seame..rising from the hollowes of the temples, pearseth, through the middle seates of the eyes.
1653 Ld. Brouncker tr. R. Descartes Excellent Compend. Musick 40 Unlesse all the Tones of these be removed by a Fourth or Fifth, from their proper Seat.
1676 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 521 The Seates or places where the same Bookes are to be putt..shall have the name of the said Sr Thomas Sclater putt upon them.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 39 b If..Buildings obstruct your Sight from discovering and fixing upon the exact Seat of every Angle.
1775 T. Sheridan Lect. Art of Reading I. i. 38 For many Contiguous letters [of the alphabet] as they now lie are performed in such different seats and with such different exertions of the organs.
†b. = locus n.1 3. Obsolete (? nonce-use.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > [noun]
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1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 14 Aristotle assigneth ten places, or seates of arguments, in the fourth Chapter of his Categories.
†20. A term of the game of Post and Pair. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) xxii. 106 You must first stake at Post, then at Pair; after this deal two Cards apiece, then stake at the Seat.
IV. Basis, foundation, support.
†21.
a. A place prepared for something to be erected or set up upon it; a building site. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > [noun] > site of or for (a) building(s)
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sole1417
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island plot1908
tract1912
1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. i. 14 Against the side of this hill would be cut or digged diuers large and broad seats one aboue an other,..which seats would bee..boorded..on the sides..and also close boorded aloft,..the number of these seats would bee according to the number of your Hounds.
a1627 J. Hayward Life & Raigne Edward Sixt (1630) 85 A Church by Strand-bridge, and two Bishops houses, were pulled downe to make a seat for his new building.
1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 14 But as for a Seate on Moorish Grounds.., in effect 'tis to Build perpetually.
†b. transferred in Perspective. (See quot. 1815.)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > perspective > [noun] > planes, lines, or points
horizontal plane1638
eye-pointa1650
table1670
principal point1671
plan1678
geometrical plane1695
terrestrial line1704
vertical plane1704
baseline1724
station line1724
middle ground1753
picture plane1771
middle distance1778
primitive plane1798
seat1815
mid-distance1828
ground-plane1833
station point1859
mid-ground1864
no-sky line1927
1815 R. Brown Princ. Pract. Perspective 3 Seat is the space that an object would occupy on the ground plane.
22.
a. That part of a thing upon which it rests or appears to rest, usually the broadest part; the base.
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the world > space > relative position > low position > [noun] > condition of being placed under > that which lies under > base on which a thing rests
staddlea900
groundc950
base?c1335
standinga1382
foundation1398
basingc1400
bottom1440
subjecta1500
groundworka1557
basis?a1560
pedestal1563
understand1580
footwork1611
centrea1616
underwork1624
skaddle1635
substructure1641
foot piece1657
pediment1660
seat1661
sedes1662
under-warp1668
plantationa1680
terrace1735
substructure1789
footing1791
seating1805
1661 N. N. Narr. Drayning Fenns 7 Banks..9 foot high and 60 foot wide at seat or bottom.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §vi. i. 139 The first..is the Edible Button Fish. These have very great Prickles, with Seats or Bases proportionable.
1828 P. Nicholson Pract. Masonry 37 A horizontal section of a wall, through the base-line, is called the seat of the wall.
1830 P. Hedderwick Treat. Marine Archit. 118 Seat, the bottom part of a timber; the seat of the floors is that part which rests on the keel.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 114 The eddy which the ship draws after her at her seat or line of flotation.
1855 Technologisches Wörterbuch II. 452 Seat of wooden bellows (the lower or fixed chest or box), der Unterkasten, Gîte.
b. The position of a horseshoe with respect to the hoof. Cf. seated adj. 7.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] > horseshoe > position of
seat1851
1851 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (ed. 2) I. 338/1 The transparent shoe, showing the usual seat given to the shoe upon the forefoot.
23.
a. Mechanics. A part or surface upon which the base of something rests.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > support
bearer1607
pedestal1665
stud1694
arbor1728
seat1805
pillar1833
housing1839
seating1844
bed-plate1850
bedding-plate1879
1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 129 Seat, the scarph or part trimmed out for a chock, &c. to fay to.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 414 The beam being received into the seats formed on..the palms [of a plough].
1858 R. Murray Marine Engines (ed. 3) 71 It more frequently happens that the valve fits its seat so badly as to allow of the escape of steam.
1875 T. Seaton Man. Fret Cutting 103 Carvers leave a level place called a seat, where this extra thickness is required, and glue on a piece.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Seat, that part of the bore of a chambered piece of ordnance at which the shell rests when rammed home.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 129 A hole is drilled so much less in size than the jewel as to allow of a firm seat for it.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 583/1 To obtain the requisite convexity by rounding the formation surface or seat of the road.
b. The surface on which the head of a poppet-valve rests when the valve is closed.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve > parts of
shank1660
seat1841
mica flap1906
spool1960
1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 379/2 H, the valve-seat.
1916 J. E. Homans Automobile Handbk. xvii. 184 It is necessary in grinding a valve into its seat to place a ball of cotton waste..into the port leading to the combustion space.
1936 E. A. Phillipson Steam Locomotive Design x. 353 The springs provided to assist the valves to return to their seats are located in the steam spaces.
1963 R. F. Webb Motorists' Dict. 220 It is essential that the valve is accurately ground to match the seat so as to form an effective gas seal.
1970 K. Ball Fiat 600, 600D Autobook i. 13 Refacing of the valve head seating area must be done on a special universal grinder enabling the angle of the seat to be accurately set.
24. Mining.
a. The floor of a mine.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > bottom of mine or working
sole1653
bottom1695
seat1860
1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Derbyshire Terms) Seat, or Sole, the floor or bottom of the mine.
b. The stratum (of clay, rock, etc.) upon which coal lies.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > stratum by constitution > strata underlying a coal-seam
seat1867
seat-earth1877
seat-stone1878
1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 25 The floor, thill, or seat.., of the coal is an underclay.
25. Shoemaking. A piece of leather pegged or sewn to the boot as a foundation for the heel.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > heel > foundation for
seat1882
seat-piece1885
1882 Worcs. Exhib. Catal. iii. 30 The nails..spread as they go in so as to nail the heel closely round the seat of the boot.
1895 Hasluck's Boot Making vii. 107 If a pegged seat is wanted, it must be arranged for before the boot is lasted, as it is necessary to skive the stiffener much thinner..than is wanted for a sewn seat.
†26. Used to render Latin sedes in technical senses.
a. Anatomy. seat of the heart: see quots. 13981, 13982. seat of the skull: apparently the cheek-bone. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bone supporting heart > [noun]
seat of the heart1398
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > zygomatic arch > cheekbones
cheek lapa1382
cheek bonea1425
cheek blade1535
seat of the skull1552
yoke bone1615
gumble1688
jugal1854
malar1866
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxxvi. 149 And the herte hath in the brede therof two grystlewe bones, whyche ben callyd the setes therof.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. lix. 175 In the mydyll of the herte of a beest is a grystyll bone sette in the brede therof and that is callyd the seet and subtylte of the herte.
1552 N. Udall tr. T. Gemini Compend. Anat. B vij b/2 The seate of ye scull, whych we call the stonny seate [L. sedes calvariæ, quam lapidosam dicimus].
1552 N. Udall tr. T. Gemini Compend. Anat. B vij b/2 Thys seate together wyth hys felowe on the other syde, we call the cheake bones.
b. Surgery. [after Greek βέλεος ἕδρη, Hipp.] (See quot. 16341.) Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound
woundc900
soreOE
dolk?c1225
hurt?c1225
unsoundc1275
brokec1350
plaguea1382
lesurec1420
plaiea1470
blechure1483
wounding1581
bloodwipe1611
injurya1616
seat1634
trauma1684
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > fractures > fracture of skull
seat1634
sedes1634
countercleft1638
counter-fissure1656
contrafissure1783
counter-fracture1839
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. x. i. 337 Hippocrates..in his Booke..seemes to have made 4. or 5. kinds of fractures of the Scull... The 4. is named Sedes, or a seat.
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. x. i. 338 Seate, when the marke of the weapon remaines imprinted in the wound, that the wound is of no more length, nor bredth than the weapon fell upon.

Phrases

P1. to hold, keep a or one's seat: to remain seated, to keep from falling; also, to retain one's position as a Member of Parliament. Similarly, to lose one's seat.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > come to grief
misfareOE
miswendOE
misferec1275
misspeeda1387
miscarryc1387
mischieve?a1400
to catch copper1530
to lose one's seatc1540
mischief1598
to bu(r)st one's boiler1824
to come to grief1850
to come (also go) a mucker1851
to come (fall, get) a cropper1858
mucker1862
to go or be up the flume1865
to come undone1899
to play smash1903
to come to a sticky end1904
to come unstuck1911
the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > remain as opposed to go > remain seated
to hold, keep a or one's seatc1540
perside1656
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [verb (intransitive)] > fail to be re-elected
to lose one's seat1881
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7409 Than Achilles..Al to hurlet the helme of þe high prinse; But hym seluyn was safe, & his seate helde.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 96 Whiles memory holds a seate In this distracted globe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 37 Nor neuer Hidra-headed Wilfulnesse So soone did loose his Seat. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 53 Sit worthy Friends:..Pray you keepe Seat. View more context for this quotation
1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 66 The Quack being no longer able to keep his Seat [on horseback] falls headlong.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 118 Part [of the riders] reel'd but kept their seats.
1881 W. E. Gladstone Speech at Leeds 7 Oct. in Times 8 Oct. 6/3 I never was called upon..to exercise an option between Leeds and Mid Lothian. My seat for both was lost by my acceptance of office.
P2. †to make one's seat (obsolete), to take a seat: to sit down. to take one's seat: to take the sitting-place assigned to one; to assume one's official position, to be formally admitted to Parliament or Congress.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > be sitting or seated [verb (intransitive)] > sit down
sitOE
to sit adownc1275
to sit downc1300
to make one's seata1400
to set adowna1400
to set downc1400
seat1596
pitch1796
roost1816
take a pew1898
society > authority > office > accession or entering upon office or authority > accede to office [verb (intransitive)]
mount1613
accede1737
to take one's seat1789
to come (in) to one's kingdom1892
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 8291 On a bowȝe he [sc. an angel] made his sete Of þat tre þat was so swete.
c1400 Rule of St. Benet 1791 Of þam þat er not redi þair To say þe grace & take þer sete.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. iii. 10 On the ground, Where I must take like Seat vnto my fortune. View more context for this quotation
1789 W. Cowper On Queen's Visit to London 2 When long sequester'd from his throne George took his seat again.
1801 M. Edgeworth Prussian Vase in Moral Tales III. 34 The..judge having taken his seat.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna ii. xxxvii. 50 Ere this power can make In human hearts its calm and holy seat.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) III. 238 A writ of summons was issued to him, and he took his seat accordingly.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. viii. 205 I took a seat: St. John stood near me.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 203 About two hundred and fifty members took their seats.
1865 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Currency II. 49 [He] took his seat in congress as one of the delegates from Pennsylvania.
P3. to take a or the back seat, figurative to take up the least prominent position, to occupy a subordinate place. Originally U.S.
ΚΠ
1868 in Farmer's Slang Dict. at Back Seat [Andrew Johnson's famous saying in 1868 that in the work of Reconstruction traitors should take back seats.]
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xlvi. 195 A leader came to care for his influence within his State chiefly as a means of gaining strength in the wider national field... The State, therefore, had, to use the transatlantic phrase, ‘to take the back seat.’
P4. the seat of one's pants: see pants n. Phrases 3.
P5. West African. to be on seat: to be present in one's office.
ΚΠ
1971 J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 29 A very useful one which might be recommended to English-speaking communities elsewhere is the expression (to be) on seat, as in a sentence such as ‘The Deputy Secretary is back on seat today’; meaning he is in the office, or generally available, as opposed to being absent.
1976 Listener 17 June 773/1 If you ask his servant where the district commissioner has gone, the servant tells you he is at the office with the impressive phrase: ‘Master's on seat.’

Compounds

Combinations.
C1. General relations:
a. Simple attributive.
seat-back n.
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1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It iii. 30 The conductor bent all the seat-backs down.
1976 M. Birmingham Heat of Sun ii. 21 I..turned my head, half expecting to be able to see over the seat-back.
seat-cover n.
ΚΠ
1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes iii. 193 A seat-cover of slate-green plush.
1970 Washington Post 30 Sept. b13/4 (advt.) Morris Katz & Sons Car Radio & Seatcover Center, Inc.
seat cushion n.
ΚΠ
1861 G. A. Spottiswoode in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 82 We suddenly saw seat~cushions, books, and plaids neatly lifted out by the wind.
seat frame n.
ΚΠ
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §781 The front and back of the seat-frame are connected by short rails.
seat lug n.
ΚΠ
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 34 The seat pillar [of a bicycle] should never project more than two inches from the seat lug.
seat pillar n.
ΚΠ
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 34 The seat pillar [of a bicycle] should never project more than two inches from the seat lug.
seat rail n.
ΚΠ
1891 Cent. Dict. Seat-rail,..one of the horizontal members of the frame which forms or supports the seat, as in a chair or sofa.
seat reservation n.
ΚΠ
1973 W. McCarthy Detail iii. 181 He checked in for his seat reservation.
seat row n.
ΚΠ
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. iii. 377 The Thirty seat-rows of that famed Slope are again full.
seat stitch n.
ΚΠ
1895 Hasluck's Boot Making ii. 47 One way to sew them [sc. upper and sole] together again is by loop-stiching... The seat-stitch is another way.
b. Objective.
seat borer n.
ΚΠ
1875 Guide High Wycombe 56 [Chair-] seat-borer.
seat maker n.
ΚΠ
1875 Guide High Wycombe 56 [Chair-] seat-maker.
seat owner n.
C2. Special combinations:
seat-arch n. an arched recess in a wall having a flat place to serve as a seat.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > [noun] > other seats
desk1560
seat-arch1703
window seat1715
podium1722
sunkie1788
stab1805
screen1820
porch swing1891
club-fender1915
stuff-over1915
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 224 A pair of Stone-peers with Seat-arches.
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seat-back n. a piece of tapestry, leather or other material for covering the back of a seat ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
seat belt n. a safety belt for a person in a moving conveyance, spec. one worn in an aircraft, esp. at take-off or landing, or one worn in a motor vehicle as a protection in an accident or in an emergency stop; also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > seat-belt
belt1915
seat belt1932
safety belt1938
lap belt1952
lap strap1960
harness1962
inertia reel1962
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > fuselage > cabin or saloon > seat belt for passengers
safety belt1911
seat belt1932
1932 Luftfahrt (Illustrierte technische Wörterbücher XVII) 128/3 Seat belt.
1933 Aeroplane 27 Dec. 1101/2 ‘Please fix seat-belts.’ (Note! not safety belts.)
1959 B.S.I. News Apr. 18/2 Arising from the interest now being displayed in seat belts for motorists, a new technical committee of the B.S.I. recently held its first meeting, at which it was decided that a British Standard for these articles would serve a useful purpose.
1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 vi. 150 You're chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt... She drove savagely along the freeway.
1970 C. Hampton Philanthropist iii. 32 He..came and sat next to me on the sofa, and I thought this is it, fasten your seat belts.
1977 B. Freemantle Charlie Muffin xix. 192 They had cleared the airport and the seat-belt sign had been turned off.
seat-belted adj. wearing a seat belt.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [adjective] > wearing a seat-belt or safety restraint
restrained1952
belted1953
seat-belted1967
1967 J. Redgate Killing Season (1968) i. xv. 65 The redhead sat, seat-belted, talking.
seat-board n. (a) (see quot. 1884); (b) = seat-tree n.; (c) a board suspended from scaffolding to serve as a seat for a workman; (d) a board forming a seat in a vehicle.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > work-benches, seats, etc. > [noun] > seat > for use while working aloft
boatswain's chair1856
seat-board1873
cradle1874
bosun's chair1878
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > parts and equipment of vehicles generally > [noun] > seat > of specific type or position
driver's seata1726
side seat1742
driving seat1788
back seata1832
aisle seat1838
car seat1850
reclining seat1857
window seat1862
passenger seat1867
seat-board1873
garden seat1884
bucket-seat1908
shotgun1940
Sleeperette1950
sleeper seat1960
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > operated in specific way > hand loom > parts of
rolla1425
seat-tree1790
seat-board1873
1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West iii. 70 The wagon made fearful lurches, and our seatboard rattled over it in every direction.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 233 Seat Board, in a long case clock [is] the shelf that supports the movement.
1891 H. Johnston Kilmallie I. i. 6 When the laddie's legs had grown almost sufficiently to warrant his elevation to the ‘seat-board’.
1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser.: Scaffolding 68 The crack in the side of the stack was successfully repaired by the men working from seat boards suspended from the platform above.
seat-bone n. Anatomy the innominate bone or hip-bone; more strictly the ischium n.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [noun] > hip bone > innominate bone
seat-bone1662
unnamed bone1802
innominate bone1866
innominate1879
1662 J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Trilinguis 48 The seat-bone under the loins is called the flank-bone.
1855 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. (new Amer. ed.) 4 The os ischium, os sedentarium, or seat~bone.
seat-box n. (see quot. 1794).
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [noun] > by horse-drawn vehicle > luggage
seat-box1794
1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 162 The seat box, a box made to slide under the seat... It is..convenient to carry linen, &c.
seat-breaker n. a shoemaker's tool (see quot. 1895).
ΚΠ
1895 Hasluck's Boot Making viii. 130 To make up the seat after the seat has been nicely pared up, damp the leather and use the seat breaker, rubbing it evenly round the seat.
seat-clay n. = seat-earth n. ( Cent. Dict.).
seat-earth n. one of the various names applied to the bed underlying a coal-seam.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > stratum by constitution > strata underlying a coal-seam
seat1867
seat-earth1877
seat-stone1878
1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 236 Each bed of coal is supported by a layer of shale known as under-clay or seat-earth.
seat-file n. a shoemaker's file for smoothing the ‘seat’ of a boot.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > equipment > for smoothing
St Hugh's bones1600
bump-stick1670
sandpaper stick1882
seat-file1891
1891 in W. Andrews Bygone Northamptonshire 194 The implements of [the shoemaker's] craft,..the awl, clincher.., hammer, seat-file.
seat-holder n. (a) one who occupies a particular seat; (b) one who rents or owns a seat or sitting (esp. in a church, theatre, etc.).
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > [noun] > one who sits
sittera1382
insedent1594
seat-holder1825
insessor1835
society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > [noun] > one who owns or pays rent for
seat-holder1825
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > theatre-going > theatregoer > [noun] > theatre audience > one who has a seat
seat-holder1825
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1184 A large space, which..greatly to the discomfiture of the lower seat-holders, was nearly occupied by spectators.
1842 N. Wiseman Ess. (1853) I. 378 The English seat-holder surrounded by all the luxury of worsted~worked cushions [etc.].
seat-house n. dialect a dwelling-house, ‘the manor on an estate’ (Jamieson).
ΚΠ
1483 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) 96 And the sayd Sr Georg sall repare..the forsayd messuag' that is to say on seyt house of v rowmys on berne of v rowmys.
seat-iron n. a shoemaker's tool (see quot. 1885).
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1885 J. B. Leno Art of Boot- & Shoe-making xvii. 137 The Seat Iron. This once popular piece of kit has been partially superseded by the seat wheel; but many of the best workmen still employ it to set the seat..before using the seat wheel.
seat-mate n. North American one who shares the same seat with another.
ΚΠ
1859 Ladies' Repository Nov. 645/1 She will tickle the neck of her seat-mate with a bit of grass.
1885 N.Y. Times 26 Dec. The mother, tho' wholly unaware of her seat-mate's identity, did her utmost to protect him.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 7/1 A television interview by my hon. friend's seatmate.
1976 L. Sanders Hamlet Warning (1977) xv. 124 On the night flight to Lisbon..his seatmate was a German auto parts specialist.
seat-mile n. a statistical unit denoting one mile travelled by one passenger, spec. in travel by air.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > mile > distance in miles > unit of distance travelled
train mile1846
vehicle mile1871
passenger-mile1888
seat-mile1953
1953 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Mar. 22/2 Mr. Cole predicted the combined airlines would have an annual capacity of 1,470,000,000 seat miles..by June of next year.
1961 P. W. Brooks Mod. Airliner i. 26 The most important non-stop stage lengths have been achieved—notably London–New York, 3,500 seat-miles.
1977 Guernsey Weekly Press 21 July 1/4 The 'plane is claimed to be economical with a fuel consumption per seat-mile lower than that of any other modern commercial transport aircraft.
seat-mongering n. trading in parliamentary seats.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [noun] > trading in seats
seat-mongering1813
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > constituency > trading in seats
seat-mongering1813
seat-selling1817
1813 Examiner 12 Apr. 237/1 My Lord Castlereagh's seat-mongering.
seat-owner n. one who owns a ‘pocket-borough’ or a county seat.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > owner of a pocket borough
seat-owner1818
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > constituency > type of > owner or patron of borough
borough-master1790
borough-patron1811
seat-owner1818
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 355 On the absolute sway of the great seat owners over King, Ministers, and People.
seat-pack n. a parachute carried in a pack worn over the posterior.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > parachute > [noun] > container
backpack1914
pack1926
chest pack1930
seat-pack1930
1930 O. H. Kneen Everyman's Bk. Flying xii. 217 For use in airplanes, the seat pack is generally used.
1946 W. F. Burbidge From Balloon to Bomber iii. 45 The ‘seat pack’ forms a cushion during the plane journey.
seat-piece n. Shoemaking = sense 25 (above).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > heel > foundation for
seat1882
seat-piece1885
1885 J. B. Leno Art of Boot- & Shoe-making viii. 55 Seat pieces for common work may be cut from almost any scraps of leather.
seat-rent n. the amount paid for a sitting in a church.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > [noun] > for pew
pewage1640
pew-rent1794
pew rental1837
seat-rent1865
1865 Church Times 11 Mar. 76/4 The incumbent raised the seat~rents to prevent the parishioners taking seats.
seat-seller n. one who sells parliamentary seats.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [noun] > trading in seats > one who
seat-seller1821
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > constituency > trading in seats > one who
borough-jobber1733
jobber1762
seat-seller1821
1821 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 17 Nov. 1203 Their blue arms and lips would have made any heart ache but that of a seat-seller or a loan-jobber.
seat-selling n.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > constituency > trading in seats
seat-mongering1813
seat-selling1817
1817 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 4 Jan. 15 I did not believe that there could be any such thing as seat-selling.
seat-sock n. a sock for the heel of a boot or shoe.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > heel > sock for
seat-sock1895
1895 Hasluck's Boot Making viii. 145 Gent's boots or shoes will only want a seat-sock.
seat-stick n. a walking-stick which may be adapted to form a seat.
ΚΠ
1932 Sale Catal. A neat light weight seat stick.
seat-stone n. = seat-earth n.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > stratum by constitution > strata underlying a coal-seam
seat1867
seat-earth1877
seat-stone1878
1878 A. H. Green et al. Coal: Hist. & Uses i. 28 Seat-stones vary very much in their composition, the generality of them are clays.
seat-transom n. Nautical (see quot. 1805).
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1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 129 Seat transom, that transom which is fayed and bolted to the counter~timbers, next above the deck transom, at the height of the port sills.
seat-tree n. the seat of a hand-loom.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > operated in specific way > hand loom > parts of
rolla1425
seat-tree1790
seat-board1873
1790 A. Wilson Poems 54 Go,..live o'er a Seat-tree—on nought!
seat wheel n. (see quot. 1895).
ΚΠ
1885Seat wheel [see seat-iron n.].
1895 Hasluck's Boot Making viii. 130 Run the seat-wheel evenly round [the edge of the seat], so that it leaves..one straight line of regular indentations.
seat-worm n. a threadworm, Oxyuris vermicularis, infesting the fundament.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > family Ascaridae > genus Oxyuris > member of > oxyuris vermicularis (threadworms)
vermicular ascaris1784
threadworm1804
teat-worm1890
seat-worm1893
1893 R. H. Harte et al. Local Therap. 158 Lime-water is used with advantage as an injection to destroy Seat-worms.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

seatv.

Brit. /siːt/, U.S. /sit/
Etymology: < seat n.
1.
a. transitive. To place on a seat or seats; to cause to sit down.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > sit on [verb (transitive)] > seat or cause to sit
setc888
settleOE
sitc1300
to set downa1470
siegea1500
seat1623
plotz1969
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. iv. 31 So now y'are fairely seated . View more context for this quotation
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 298 Their Poets and Historians are great frequenters of these places... These are seated in a high Chair, in the midst.
1672 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds ii. 91 Seat him [sc. the patient] so as it may be for your conveniency.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1669 (1955) III. 535 We were..seated by the Vice-Chancelor amongst the Doctors, on his right hand.
1725 London Gaz. No. 6382/4 The Great Master..seated the Proxy down in the Stall.
1805 T. Lindley Narr. Voy. to Brasil 150 The old man seated me.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. viii. 206 He seated me and himself.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. v. xlv. 162 Dinah raised her gently from her knees, and seated her on the pallet again.
figurative.1776 A. M. Toplady Psalms & Hymns 156 Seat us with thy saints in glory.1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 727 in Idylls of King Because of that high pleasure which I had To seat you sole upon my pedestal Of worship.
b. reflexive. To take one's seat, sit down. Const. at, in, upon, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > sit down [verb (reflexive)]
siteOE
seta1300
to sit downa1393
to set downa1400
seat1589
swapa1592
bench1608
pitch1844
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. Dv Ist fit an Eagle seate him with a Flie?
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 100 To seate him-selfe sure in the Saddle.
1765 J. Brown Christian Jrnl. 204 Yonder fly has seated himself upon the surface of a rough stone.
1779 Mirror No. 9 We went at an early hour, and seated ourselves in the middle of the pit.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 200 ‘Wha was it?’..said Effie, seating herself upright.
1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter II. xiv. 276 Lady Katherine good-naturedly seated herself at the pianoforte.
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 245 I saw the landlady..seat herself amply before a row of baskets.
†c. intransitive for reflexive. To sit down; also (of animals) to lie down. Of a hare: To sit in its form.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > lie down
seat1596
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [verb (intransitive)] > occupy lair
shoulderc1486
form1575
seat1596
the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > be sitting or seated [verb (intransitive)] > sit down
sitOE
to sit adownc1275
to sit downc1300
to make one's seata1400
to set adowna1400
to set downc1400
seat1596
pitch1796
roost1816
take a pew1898
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ix. sig. Gg3 The folds, where sheepe at night doe seat . View more context for this quotation
1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xiv. 176 You shall say that a Hare Seateth or Formeth.
1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 76 A Hare Seateth or Formeth, a Coney sitteth.
1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. xvii. 276 There, seating,..I will now tell you my uncle, says he.
d. transitive. To cause or enable to sit in or on a throne, chair of state or office, or other seat of authority or dignity. Hence, to establish (a person) in a position of authority or dignity. Formerly without const., †to enthrone (a king).
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > appointment to office > appoint a person to an office [verb (transitive)]
setc1000
stevenOE
assign1297
inseta1300
stable1300
ordaina1325
instituec1384
to put ina1387
limitc1405
point?1405
stablish1439
institutec1475
invest1489
assumec1503
to fill the hands of1535
establish1548
settle1548
appoint1557
place1563
assumptc1571
dispose1578
seat1595
state1604
instate1613
to bring ina1616
officea1616
constitute1616
impose1617
ascribe1624
install1647
to set up1685
prick1788
society > authority > office > appointment to office > appoint a person to an office [verb (transitive)] > admit to office formally or ceremonially > enthrone
thronec1390
enthronizea1393
inthronizatea1500
thrononizea1500
thronizea1513
inthronizate1535
enthrone1543
seat1595
mount1613
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 i. i. 22 Before I see thee seated in that throne Which now the house of Lancaster vsurpes, I vow by heauens these eies shal neuer close.
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 101 They doubted not to seate a King, at their pleasures.
1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. ii. x. 13 Xerxes being thus mutually seated in the kingdome.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 720 To inshrine Belus or Serapis thir Gods, or seat Thir Kings. View more context for this quotation
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon i. i. 22 By that means [she] seated her self absolute Mistress of that Court.
1715 T. Parnell Ess. Homer 2 in A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I There is also in Mankind a Spirit of Envy or Opposition, which makes them uneasy to see others of the same Species seated far above them in a sort of Perfection.
a1763 W. King Polit. & Lit. Anecd. (1819) 185 He [Burnet] was a better pastor than any man who is now seated on the bishops' bench.
1831 W. Scott Count Robert xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. II. 317 I could ill have kept my seat in the high place where Heaven has been pleased to seat me.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iii. 54 I find you here but in the second place: Some say the third... We will seat you highest.
e. To put into a seat in a deliberative assembly.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > chair (an assembly) [verb (transitive)] > put into a seat in
seat1797
1797 E. Burke Let. Affairs Ireland in Wks. IX. 457 The new representative was at that time seated and installed by force and violence.
1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 188 He was summoned to parliament..and was seated in the place of the ancient barons of Berkley.
1845 B. Disraeli Sybil II. iv. vii. 225 Many of whom he has succeeded in seating in the parliament of his country.
1866 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Apr. 5/1 Mr. Kinglake has been seated for Bridgewater.
f. To find seats for; to accommodate with seats or sitting room; to assign seats to. Of a building, room, etc.: To afford sitting accommodation for.
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the world > space > [verb (transitive)] > make room for one > accommodate with seats
seat1828
the world > space > [verb (transitive)] > make room for one > accommodate with seats > assign seats to
seat1828
the world > space > [verb (transitive)] > make room for one > accommodate with seats > afford sitting accommodation for
seat1887
sit1966
1828–32 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Seat,..to place in a church; to assign seats to. In New England..it is customary to seat families for a year or longer time; that is, assign and appropriate seats to their use.
1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xli. 535 The first object..was to seat the greatest number of the people possible.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Sept. 2/2 Each theatre should be registered and advertised as capable of seating a specified number.
2. passive. To be sitting, to be in a sitting posture.
ΚΠ
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles viii. 7 When he was seated in A Chariot of an inestimable value. View more context for this quotation
1700 N. Tate & N. Brady Suppl. to New Version Psalms 18 While Shepherds watch'd their Flocks by Night All seated on the Ground.
a1800 W. Cowper Yardley-Oak in W. Hayley Life & Posthumous Writings Cowper (1804) III. 415 Seated here, On thy distorted root.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxiv. 199 Osborne from his chair regarded Dobbin seated blank and silent opposite to him.
1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World i Three young men are seated at breakfast.
3.
a. transitive. To place as a resident in a district or country; to settle or establish (a people, a body of colonists, etc.) in a particular locality. Now rare.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)]
couchc1400
inhabit1413
seat1586
fix1638
haft1728
domiciliate1778
home1802
domicile1809
settle1853
adopt1897
1586 W. Warner Æneidos in Albions Eng. sig. Pii Seated we must be, and heere we would be.
1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia ii. 96 Mr West hauing seated his men at the Falles, presently returned... The President..followed him to the falles: where he found this company so inconsiderately seated, in a place not only subiect to the rivers invndation, but [etc.].
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. ii. 62 Charles the Great Subdu'd the Saxons, and did seat the French Beyond the Riuer Sala. View more context for this quotation
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xxvi. 77 The Carmelites..were first seated at Newenden in Kent.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 230 Providence, which so happily had seated me at the Brasils, as a Planter.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. x. 247 In the age of the Antonines, the Goths were still seated in Prussia.
1797 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1892) XIII. 406 If..they could have been first seated as tenants.
1910 Hirth in Encycl. Brit. VI. 191/1 Whether the Chinese were seated in their later homes from time immemorial,..or whether [etc.].
†b. reflexive. To take up a permanent abode, to settle (in a place). Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (reflexive)]
lenda1300
nesta1400
lodgec1400
inhabit1413
repair1509
settle1551
stay1558
plant1560
seat1603
1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 112 Whose tenants to inioy the liberties granted to the Nepolitans, did forsake their owne..to seate themselues there.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. v. 236 They wonne the Island of Rhodes from the Turks..and there seated themselves.
1755 Acts Assembly Pennsylv. (1762) II. 54 Many Persons residing in this Province have seated themselves on certain large Tracts of Land, neither having Property therein, or paying Rent for the same.
1797 Encycl. Brit. X. 693/1 At length, in 1638, the Dutch seated themselves here [i.e. on Mauritius].
†c. intransitive for reflexive. To settle down permanently, to establish a residence, to fix or take up abode. Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence
wickc897
telda1325
buildc1340
nestlea1382
to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400
to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425
to take one's lodgec1475
reside1490
inhabit1548
to settle one's rest1562
to sit down1579
to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584
to set (up) one's rest1590
nest1591
to set down one's rest1591
roost1593
inherit1600
habituate1603
seat1612
to take up (one's) residencea1626
settle1627
pitch1629
fix1638
locate1652
to marry and settle1718
domesticate1768
domiciliate1815
to hang up one's hat1826
domicile1831
to stick one's stakes1872
homestead1877
to put down roots1882
to hang one's hat1904
localize1930
1622 Relation Eng. Plantation Plimoth, New Eng. 4 Some of our people..desired..to travaile by Land into the Countrey,..to see whether it might be fit for vs to seate in or no.
1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. iii. ii. 48 If he perceiued, we prepared our selues to seat here.
1697 in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 44 Abundance of People were desirous to seat there.
1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 141 [This] would doubtless be a great prejudice to the Planters that should seat there.
in extended use.1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus ii. 3 The knowledge of God seateth not in their hearts.1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 102 Thy root sucks but diseases, worms there seat And claim it for their meat.
d. passive. To have one's ‘seat’ or mansion in a specified place.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (passive)]
stay1558
settlea1648
seata1684
to set down1741
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > inhabit house > in specified place
seata1684
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 345 A..Gent: seated neere Worster, & very Curious in Gardning.
a1845 R. H. Barham Blasphemer's Warning in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 225 In Kent, we are told, There was seated of old, A handsome young gentleman.
1859 C. E. Long in R. Symonds Diary 75 (note) Although the grandfather of Sir Richard became seated in Cornwall by his marriage with a coheiress of Trethurffe.
4. transitive. With a thing as object: To place in a ‘seat’ or situation. (rare exc. passive as in 5.)
a. To set or secure in its proper place; to fix in proper position on a base or support. Now only technical. Also intransitive for reflexive to lie, rest upon, and with other consts.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > in a place intended or adapted to receive a thing
setc1275
seat1607
lodge1611
render1616
settlec1650
the world > space > relative position > high position > position upon > be upon something [verb (intransitive)]
to sit on ——eOE
leanOE
restOE
to sit upon ——c1300
set1570
insist1598
seat1607
inside1657
repose1799
the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (intransitive)] > be supported
rideOE
restOE
to sit upon ——1481
rely1572
stay1585
to sit on ——1605
seat1607
bottoma1640
step1791
heel1850
bed1875
1607 B. Jonson Volpone ii. ii. sig. E3 In youth it perpetually preserues, in age restores the complexion; seats your teeth, did they dance like Virginall iacks, firme as a wall. View more context for this quotation
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) 153 Clap into thy Furnace an iron Kettle, and let the bottom thereof seat upon the iron Barr.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 89/2 Seat the Shooe, fit it to the Foot [of a horse].
1872 Spons' Dict. Engin. V. 1804 The slotted head of the common wood screw is frequently split when much force is required to seat it or to remove it.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 655/1 Closing the bolt by a reverse motion..seats the cartridge in the chamber.
1916 Hirshfeld & Ulbricht Steam Power xi. 207 The valves are all double-seated.., that is, they seat at both ends.
1963 C. R. Cowell et al. Inlays, Crowns, & Bridges iv. 41 This must be done quickly otherwise the cement will begin to set and the restoration will not seat accurately.
1972 L. M. Harris Introd. Deepwater Floating Drilling Operations ix. 93 As the well-head seats on the previously set permanent guide structure and foundation-pile housing, it is latched and rigidly attached to the housing.
b. To locate or establish in a specified place.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > situate
setc950
markc1400
situate?a1425
site?c1425
plant1558
seat1603
emplacea1627
position1817
to set down1827
spot1891
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 143 He himselfe made choice of the cittie Neapolis..to seat his regall pallace in.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis xi. 112 Neither would she [sc. Nature] have seated the Mouth in so eminent, open, and conspicuous a place.
c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies i. 30 In thy youthful soul Love's gentle tyrant seats his awful throne.
†c. To found (a city). Obsolete. rare.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (transitive)] > found or establish > a town, etc.
foundc1290
seat1612
1612 T. Heywood Apol. for Actors i. 23 Thebes, seated by Cadmus.
a1657 W. Bradford Hist. Plymouth Plantation in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1856) 4th Ser. III. 368 Their neigbours of ye Massachusets..had some years after seated a towne (called Hingam) on their lands.
5. In passive, to have its seat, be situated.
a. Of a country, town, house, etc.: To be situated in a certain position; to have a certain kind of situation (e.g. as regards salubrity or pleasantness).
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the world > space > place > position or situation > be positioned or situated [verb (intransitive)] > of a country, building, etc.
standOE
seat1577
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 172 Euery house is not so seated, as it hath earable ground about it.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. H4 Some darke deepe desert seated from the way, That knowes not parching heat, nor freezing cold Will wee find out. View more context for this quotation
1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 83 A pleasant Vale seated belowe Some steepy Mount.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 284 The Mannor of Shurland seated Eastward from hence.
1633 T. Heywood Eng. Traveller iii. F 3 b [The house] 'tis well seated, Rough-cast without, but brauely lined within.
1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §100 To..furnish Cities with water though never so high seated.
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 131 The Garden, seated on the level Floor.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 93 Lands seated on Marle are usually very rich.
1857 Zoologist 15 5618 The house was seated in a pretty garden.
1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 52 Seated on the confines of Europe and Asia, it [Byzantium] links the two shores of the Bosphorus.
1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 213 London..is seated on clay.
b. Hence of a person with reference to his dwelling. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > position or situation > be positioned or situated [verb (intransitive)] > of a person
seat1598
1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 65 When we came vnto Bathy..we were seated a good league distant from his tabernacles.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 7 They are as sicke that surfeite with too much, as they that starue with nothing; it is no meane happines therfore to be seated in the meane. View more context for this quotation
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster ii. i. sig. C You are most delicatly seated here, full of sweete delight and blandishment; An excellent ayre. View more context for this quotation
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. i. 5 By no meanes to build too nere a great Neighbour, which were in truth to bee as vnfortunately seated on the earth, as Mercurie is in the Heauens.
1803 Duke of Wellington To Lieut.-Gen. Stuart in Dispatches (1835) II. 73 It appears..that we shall have a war immediately, or a protracted negotiation with Scindiah and the Rajah of Berar, seated upon the Nizam's frontier.
†c. Of a material object: To have a certain place (e.g. in the body, in a building). Obsolete.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > be positioned or situated [verb (intransitive)]
resteOE
standOE
sitOE
liec1121
inhabitc1384
settlea1400
couchc1400
biga1425
loutc1460
residea1475
innc1475
contain1528
consist1542
seatc1580
situate1583
lodge1610
site1616
subsist1618
station1751
c1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xxii. ix Whose hart..Doth melt away, though it be inmost seated.
a1633 G. Herbert Priest to Temple (1652) xiii. 58 A Poor-mans Box conveniently seated, to receive the charity of well minded people.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Eye In Birds, and some other Creatures, the Eyes are so seated, as to take in near a whole Sphere.
d. Of a seed or fruit (with transferred notion of sense 2): To be fixed on something, or in a particular place.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > (defined by) distribution, arrangement, or position > be distributed, arranged, or positioned [verb (intransitive)] > be positioned
seat1857
1857 T. Moore Handbk. Brit. Ferns (ed. 3) 8 The part of the vein on which the sorus is seated is called the receptacle.
1882–4 M. C. Cooke Brit. Fresh-water Algæ I. 175 Dwarf males seated upon or about the oogonia.
e. Of an immaterial thing, a quality, feeling, etc.: To have its seat or abode in a certain place.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > [verb (intransitive)] > exist in or be situated in
standOE
to have placea1398
exist1585
rely1591
subsist1593
to find place1598
seat1604
rulec1654
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 54 See what a grace was seated on this browe. View more context for this quotation
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Sea Voy. i. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaaaa2v/1 The greatest plagues, that humane nature suffers, Are seated here, wildnesse, and wants innumerable.
1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 263 Their Inclinations, which are seated in the Heart.
1749 W. Melmoth Lett. by Sir Thomas Fitzosborne II. lii. 61 The latter [i.e. generosity] is seated in the mind.
1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 8 We there see..the same thoughts passing through the mind and seated on the lips.
f. Of a disease: To have its seat in a certain part of the body. Also to be deeply seated: lit. to be situated far below the surface; hence (often figurative) to be firmly established in the system, to be beyond the reach of superficial remedies.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > affect with disease [verb (transitive)] > have seat in
seata1620
the world > existence and causation > causation > basis or foundation > be based [verb (intransitive)]
rise1530
radicate1602
bottoma1640
found1837
to be deeply seated1871
root1882
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. xiii. §3. 140 His plague was seated into his bowells.
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 6 Fiery diseases seated in the spirit, embroile the whole frame of the body.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxvi. 330 Spongy chancres..were seated on the inner lamella of the prepuce.
1871 S. Smiles Character vii. 212 (note) The disease had become too deeply seated for recovery.
1888 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. II. iv. 301 [The granulations are] seated in the pia mater.
†6. transitive. To ‘plant’ with inhabitants, people, settle (a country). Obsolete. (Apparently North Amer.)
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > colonizing > colonize (a place) [verb (transitive)]
inhabit1390
planta1513
colonizea1626
colony1649
seat1684
settle1702
colonialize1971
1684 in Pennsylvania Arch. I. 85 Vpon Lands not Seated before in ye Dukes Time.
1776 C. Carroll Jrnl. Vis. Canada in B. Mayer Mem. (1845) 78 The country on each side of the St. Lawrence is level, rich, and thickly seated; indeed, so thickly seated, that the houses form almost one continued row.
1784 G. Washington Writings 1891 X. 366 To see these lands seated by particular societies.
7. To fix a seat on (a chair); to repair (trousers, a chair) by renewing or mending the seat.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > repair or renovate > specific part of garment
seat1762
reseat1820
knee1847
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making of other specific articles or materials > make other specific articles or materials [verb (transitive)] > processes in making furniture
upholster1873
cane1885
rush1885
seat1886
1762 S. Foote Orators i. 44 As I was sitting cross-legged on my shop board, new seating a cloth pair of breeches.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Seat,..7. To repair by making the seat new; as, to seat a garment.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Apr. 14/1 Then the chair is handed over to the women to be ‘seated’.
8.
a. To furnish (a building, a room, etc.) with seats.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > [verb (transitive)] > furnish with seats
seat1817
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. vii. 133 A portion of which was seated with pews, and used as a church.
1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 69 The nave is now seated with two rows of low-backed benches.
1899 Eclectic Mag. Feb. 201 A..carriage which was seated for fifteen.
b. (See quot. 1828-32) Cf. 1f.
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1828–32 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Seat,..to appropriate the pews in, to particular families; as, to seat a church.
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