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单词 to take a seat
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to take a seat
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.
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