Seated

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seat \Seat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Seated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Seating}.]
     1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat
        one's self.
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              The guests were no sooner seated but they entered
              into a warm debate.                   --Arbuthnot.
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     2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like;
        to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
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              Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. --Shak.
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              They had seated themselves in New Guiana. --Sir W.
                                                    Raleigh.
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     3. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting
        to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
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     4. To fix; to set firm.
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              From their foundations, loosening to and fro,
              They plucked the seated hills.        --Milton.
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     5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a
        country. [Obs.] --W. Stith.
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     6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  seated
       adj : (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the
             body supported on the buttocks; "the seated Madonna";
             "the audience remained seated" [syn: {sitting}] [ant: {standing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "seated":
     assigned, deployed, embosomed, emplaced, ensconced, established,
     fixed, installed, located, placed, planted, positioned, posted,
     set, settled, situate, situated, spotted, stationed