seated

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːtɪd/

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seated

1. simple past and past participle of seat

seated (not comparable)

1. sitting
2. of a woman's skirt, stretched out and baggy over the wearer's buttocks from much sitting while wearing the skirt
3. fixed; confirmed
   • 1852, James Fenimore Cooper, Precaution‎:

     "Why, everything about the colonel seems so seated, so ingrafted in his nature, so--so very self-satisfied, that I am afraid it would be a difficult task to take the first step in amendment--to convince him of its necessity?

4. located; situated
5. Furnished with a seat.
   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     There was a rush-seated chair with a hole in the seat, — and that […] seemed to be all that the room contained.

• deep-seated

• e-dates, sedate, steade, teades, teased