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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
seated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
figure
▪ From time to time she would glance back into the room, her eyes coming to rest on the casually seated figure of Tsu Ma.
▪ Masonry is traced on the background by the seated figure and a tree by the other group.
▪ El was usually depicted as a seated figure wearing bull's horns, the symbol of strength and fertility.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It's a larger seated venue than usual, over 30,000.
▪ More difficult would be patients with a deep seated psychological problem which would require more than three months' treatment.
▪ Muriel reminded herself to stay seated and let Lily follow him out to the hall.
▪ The seated position corresponds more readily to our body posture during the day when stress develops.
▪ They then remain seated while the rest leave for the next trip.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seated

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.

Wiktionary
seated
  1. 1 sitting 2 of a woman's skirt, stretched out and baggy over the wearer's buttocks from much sitting while wearing the skirt v

  2. (en-past of: seat)

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]

Usage examples of "seated".

When at the battle of Dresden in 1813 Moreau, seated beside the Emperor Alexander, had both limbs shattered by a French cannon-ball, he did not utter a groan, but asked for a cigar and smoked leisurely while a surgeon amputated one of his members.

It was something of an anticlimax to observe, on the right-hand side of the pylon, a smaller male figure presenting an ankhthe symbol of lifeto the nose of a seated king.

The Archivist was seated on a white marble lift bench, holding his winecup in both hands: the Horsemaster stood beside him, leaning over to speak to him with one booted foot on the stone slab, his own cup dangling perilously from loose fingers.

At length, about mid-day, fifty men, all in their best clothes,--most of them having come out of curiosity to see the handsome salons which were much talked of throughout the arrondissement,--were seated on the chairs Madame Marion had provided for them.

While their eyes were fixed on the chariot where Stilicho was deservedly seated by the side of his royal pupil, they applauded the pomp of a triumph, which was not stained, like that of Constantine, or of Theodosius, with civil blood.

A grave-looking man, of a melancholy and severe aspect, and attired in a loose robe of black velvet, was seated alone in a chamber, the windows of which opened upon the Fountain Court, which we have just quitted.

She had seated herself on the fender of an autonomic tractor and was examining packages of seeds.

Seated, slumped over, her fists balled at her eyes, sat Jacy Grayson, second cousin to his best friend, Aaron.

Esmay moved to a seat midway up on the left side, and then spotted Barin, front row right, already seated and looking compact and composed.

Seated alone in the living room of the Bartram home, he was trying to read a book, but actually his mind was hard at work on other matters.

CHAPTER XVII THE SHADOW ARRIVES ALL this time, Harry Vincent, seated at the wheel of his coupe, was watching the Bartram mansion.

The shadows almost made it seem that there were figures seated on the sophas and chairs or lounging by the beaufet at the side of the room, as there probably had been a few hours before.

For the most part he remained silent, seated on his little bedstead, occupied in mending his own boots.

Aziza Begum had been wont to tell of an evening seated on the flat roof-top of the zenana quarters and looking out across the beautiful, garish city of Lucknow.

Agatha Terry was fast asleep on a sofa, so that Lady Bellamy and Mildred, seated upon lounging-chairs, by a table with a light on it, placed by an open window, were practically alone.