SEAT (2)

seat (2). Seat, v.t. to place on or in a seat, fix, settle, plan

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