beseat

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ seat.

Verb

beseat (third-person singular simple present beseats, present participle beseating, simple past and past participle beseated)

1. (reflexive, rare) To make seated; to seat.
   • 1954, Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, translated by Stephen Becker, The Sacred Forest: Magic and Secret Rites in French Guinea, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 122:

     "Beseat yourselves, gentlemen, beseat yourselves," he insisted, pointing to a rough-hewn bench.

   • 2000, Ivo Mosley, editor, Dumbing Down: Culture, Politics, and the Mass Media, Thorverton, Devon, Bowling Green, O.H.: Imprint Academic, →ISBN, pages 14–15:

     One of my abiding memories of the House of Commons is that of a huge frame padding through the door to the right of the Speaker's chair and beseating himself in a corner.

   • 2006, Radhika Gorantla, Savour, New York, N.Y.,  […]: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 68:

     At that point I was so driven to impatience that I could not wait till I returned to my room, but beseated myself right there and then on the fourth floor, opened the little hardcover and happily rejoined my companions at the Mount of Purgatory.

Derived terms

• beseated (adjective)

Related terms

• unseat
• deseat
• reseat