seated

Adjective

Synonyms: sitting

WordNet 3.0

(of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks“the seated Madonna”“the audience remained seated”Synonyms: sitting

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. [1913 Webster]

The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.— Arbuthnot.[1913 Webster]

2.To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. [1913 Webster]

Thus high . . . is King Richard seated.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

They had seated themselves in New Guiana.— Sir W. Raleigh.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

4.To fix; to set firm. [1913 Webster]

From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

5.To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.] --W. Stith. [1913 Webster]

6.To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair. [1913 Webster]