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seated, ppl. a.|ˈsiːtɪd|
[f. seat n. and v. + -ed.]
1. Fixed in position. Obs. or arch.
1605Shakes. Macb. i. iii. 136 Whose horrid Image doth vnfixe my Heire, And make my seated Heart knock at my Ribbes. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 644 From thir foundations loosning to and fro They pluckt the seated Hills with all thir load, Rocks, Waters, Woods.
†2. With adverb: (Well) situated; (well) provided with a ‘seat’ or mansion. Obs.
1621in Kempe Losely MSS. (1836) 456 Bruxells..being a well seated and well watered towne as evr I sawe. 1663Gerbier Counsel b 5 Your..well seated Pallace with a wood at its back. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton (1906) 278 Mr. Knox was so well seated, and could not be supposed to leave such an estate.
3. Sitting down; in a sitting posture or condition. the Seated Lady, the constellation Cassiopeia.
1818Scott Rob Roy xx, The seated part of the congregation. 1870Murray's Handbk. Essex, etc. 206 Seated figures of the Apostles serve as pinnacles of the buttresses. 1886Proctor in Sci. Amer. 3 July 3/3 Low down, between north and north-east, we find the Seated Lady (Cassiopeia).
4. Of a room, etc.: Provided with seats.
1829Bentham Justice & Cod. Petit., Abr. Petit Justice 37 The appeal goes..from the four-seated court in Westminster Hall to the House of Lords.
5. Provided with a seat, as a chair, pair of trousers, etc. Only in parasynthetic formations, as double-seated, hard-seated, two-seated, etc.
1841J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk II. 163 Several hard-seated wooden chairs. 1898Cycling 21 Cycling knicker⁓bockers should all be double-seated outside. 1903Westm. Gaz. 25 Sept. 8/2 Two-seated vehicles.
6. U.S. (See quot.) Obs. exc. Hist.
1877W. H. Burroughs On Taxation 208 In Pennsylvania, prior to 1844, seated lands, that is, lands occupied by residence, or cultivation, could not be sold for taxes.
7. Of a horseshoe: hollowed out so that the bearing surface rests on the wall of the hoof.
1831W. Youatt Horse xvii. 311 (heading) The concave-seated shoe. 1908Animal Managem. (War Office) 227 Seating is the hollowing out of the bearing surface, opposed to the sole, so that a seated shoe bears on the wall alone. |