资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

            The guests were no sooner seated but they entered
            into a warm debate.                   --Arbuthnot.

   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. 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. To fix; to set firm.

            From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They
            plucked the seated hills.             --Milton.

   5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a
      country. [Obs.] --W. Stith.

   6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.

资料来源 : WordNet®

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}]