beseated

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English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

beseated (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Synonym of seated.
    • 1868, Mrs. F[rances] M[iriam] Whitcher, chapter I, in Widow Spriggins, Mary Elmer, and Other Sketches, New York, N.Y.: Geo. W. Carlton & Co., Publishers, page 42:
      I'd jest ben puttin' Ojmelus and Gad, and Axy and Vine, to bed in the trundle-bed, and was beseated readin' in Cecely, (a novil belongin' to a naber of ourn,) when father came in and says he to me, says he, "Milly," — says I, "Sir!" "Come up chomber," says he, "I want to see ye a minnit."
    • 1978, Virginia Baeckler, PR for Pennies: Low-Cost Library Public Relations, Hopewell, N.J.: Sources, page 2:
      It is not simply the view of selected dissidents that libraries are such difficult, dreary places. The stereotype is so pervasive that national television advertisements use libraries as the most unlikely, unimagineable location to posit an automobile, and the most likely situation to have a sedate, bespectacled, beseated female recommending gentle (why not effective? or dynamic?) laxatives.
    • 1985, Peter Gibson, The Capital Companion: A Street-by-Street Guide to London and Its Inhabitants, Exeter, Devon: Webb & Bower, →ISBN, page 47:
      On the north side of the Square is a bronze statue of Charles James FOX (be-toga'd and beseated) by Sir Richard WESTMACOTT. It was erected here in 1816, ten years after Fox's death.

Verb[edit]

beseated

  1. simple past and past participle of beseat