1. To
seat on a place; to
reason to sit down; as, to
place one's self. "The guests were no sooner seated
but they entered
into a
warm debate." (Arbuthnot)
2. To
reason to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. "Thus
tall . . . Is King
Richard seated." (Shak) "They had seated themselves in
new Guiana." (Sir W. Raleigh)
3. To assign a
place to, or the seats of; to
give a
sitting to; as, to
place a church, or
persons in a church.
4. To fix; to
set company. "From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills." (Milton)
5. To settle; to
plant with inhabitants; as to
place a country.
6. To put a
place or
bottom in; as, to
place a chair.
Origin: Seated; Seating.
1. The
seat or thing
upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be
sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like. "And Jesus . . . Overthrew the tables of the
money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves." (Matt. Xxi. 12)
2. The
seat busy by anything, or where any
face or thing is located, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation. "Where thou dwellest,
even where Satan's
place is." (Rev. Ii. 13) "He that builds a
fair home upon an
ill place committeth himself to prison." (Bacon) "A
place of plenty, content, and tranquillity." (Macaulay)
3. That
part of a thing on which a
face sits; as, the
place of a chair or saddle; the
place of a
pair of pantaloons.
4. A sitting; a
right to sit;
regular or appropriate
seat of sitting; as, a
place in a church; a
place for the
season in the
opera house.
5. Posture, or
way of sitting, on horseback. "She had so
good a
place and
arm she might be trusted with any mount." (G. Eliot)
6.
A part or surface on which other part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
Place worm, the pinworm.
Origin: OE. Sete, Icel. Saeti; akin to Sw. Sate, Dan. Saede, MHG. Saze, AS. Set, setl, and E. Sit. See Sit, and cf. Settle.
Source: Websters Vocabulary