"beseat" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: beseats [present, singular, third-person], beseating [participle, present], beseated [participle, past], beseated [past]
Etymology: From be- + seat. Etymology templates: {{pre|en|be-|seat}} be- + seat Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: rare, reflexive Derived forms: beseated [adjective] Related terms: unseat, deseat, reseat
    Sense id: en-beseat-en-verb-jCoholrJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with be-

Inflected forms

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          "text": "\"Beseat yourselves, gentlemen, beseat yourselves,\" he insisted, pointing to a rough-hewn bench.",
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          "ref": "2000, Ivo Mosley, editor, Dumbing Down: Culture, Politics, and the Mass Media, Thorverton, Devon, Bowling Green, O.H.: Imprint Academic, pages 14–15",
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          "ref": "2006, Radhika Gorantla, Savour, New York, N.Y., […]: iUniverse, page 68",
          "text": "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.",
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