life seatn.

Brit.

/ˈlʌɪf siːt/, U.S.

/ˈlaɪf ˌsit/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: life n., seat n.

Etymology: < life n. + seat n. With sense 2 compare earlier lifebuoy n. at life n. Compounds 3.

1. A seat in a legislative body, on a company board, etc., which may be held for life.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > seat in

seat1775

life seat1846

1846 Times 11 July 2/6 A responsibility which I would not take—not for the certainty of securing my present seat here, nor for a life-seat here.

1886 Davenport (Iowa) Gaz. 9 Apr. 1/8 Twenty-eight of the present Irish peers..[are] to be granted the option to have life seats in the first Irish order.

1916 Constit. Carnegie Corporation N.Y. in Man. Public Benefactions Andrew Carnegie (1919) 211 Whenever any of the said life seats shall become vacant, it shall cease to be a life seat and shall become a term seat.

1962 G. Chapman Third Republic of France vii. 163 He was elected by the Senate to the life-seat vacated by the death of the Legitimist, La Rochette.

1998 Guardian (Nexis) 24 Nov. Stepping down as head of the army in March, he took an unelected life seat in the senate.

†2. A seat on a vessel designed to act as a buoyant life-saving device in case of emergency. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1854 Life-boat Oct. 159 Patent life-seat. Perhaps the chief drawback to a sufficiency of life preserving articles being provided on board our packet steamers and other passenger ships has been the unfitness for other purposes of any such articles commonly in use.

1858 H. D. Thoreau Chesuncook in Atlantic Monthly June 4/1 She was a well-appointed little boat,..with patent life-seats and metallic life-boat.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	life seat
释义	life seatn. Brit. /ˈlʌɪf siːt/, U.S. /ˈlaɪf ˌsit/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: life n., seat n. Etymology: < life n. + seat n. With sense 2 compare earlier lifebuoy n. at life n. Compounds 3. 1. A seat in a legislative body, on a company board, etc., which may be held for life. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > seat in seat1775 life seat1846 1846 Times 11 July 2/6 A responsibility which I would not take—not for the certainty of securing my present seat here, nor for a life-seat here. 1886 Davenport (Iowa) Gaz. 9 Apr. 1/8 Twenty-eight of the present Irish peers..[are] to be granted the option to have life seats in the first Irish order. 1916 Constit. Carnegie Corporation N.Y. in Man. Public Benefactions Andrew Carnegie (1919) 211 Whenever any of the said life seats shall become vacant, it shall cease to be a life seat and shall become a term seat. 1962 G. Chapman Third Republic of France vii. 163 He was elected by the Senate to the life-seat vacated by the death of the Legitimist, La Rochette. 1998 Guardian (Nexis) 24 Nov. Stepping down as head of the army in March, he took an unelected life seat in the senate. †2. A seat on a vessel designed to act as a buoyant life-saving device in case of emergency. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1854 Life-boat Oct. 159 Patent life-seat. Perhaps the chief drawback to a sufficiency of life preserving articles being provided on board our packet steamers and other passenger ships has been the unfitness for other purposes of any such articles commonly in use. 1858 H. D. Thoreau Chesuncook in Atlantic Monthly June 4/1 She was a well-appointed little boat,..with patent life-seats and metallic life-boat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1846
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