seatment

Noun

seatment (plural seatments)

1. (obsolete) The location where a person, facility, or community is established; settlement.
   • Thirty-six names were put into a box, and thirty days preceding the annual meeting the Clerk of the Society was to draw twelve of said names, and the persons whose names were thus drawn were to seat the meeting house and report at the next annual meeting “of their seatment.”1931, Lucius Israel Barber, A record and documentary history of Simsbury, page 362
   • And forasmuch as the Chowan Indians having their hunting quarters upon some of your petitioners lands aforesaid therfore doe pretend the said lands to be theirs not withstanding the patents and grants aforesaid in making and threatening your Honrs petrs by destroying their Stocks burneing their...2002, William L. Byrd, Villainy Often Goes Unpunished
2. The act or manner in which something has been seated; placement.
   • A force pump comprising a well casing having a bottom packing ring, a cylinder held in said ring and having a substantially closed upper and lower end, inlet ports in said cylinder below the ring and outlet ports in said cylinder above the ring, a pull rod extending into the cylinder, a lower...1953, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks, volume 81, Issues 7-9
   • A portable fan device adapted for seatment on an underlying flat surface comprising, an elongate body portion having a top end and a bottom end and having a central horizontal axis along the length of said elongate body portion, ...2000, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
3. The location or facilities provided for someone or something to be seated in.
   • ...left mandible with broad, flat lacinia mobilis set in seatment so surface flush with extremes of incisor, right incisor also with mostly unserrate straight margin as in left, right lacinia mobilis spiniform, each mandible with two spines, no molars, no palps;1972, Bulletin, The New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research - Volume 210, page 187
   • There is disclosed a combination flat top and game table assembly, the combination including a leg support for supporting the table arrangement, the first top secured to the leg support and forming a first type of game table surface a second top constructed for removable seatment upon the first...1973, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office: Patents
4. The act of sitting.
   • So I was ready to ask “folks to momentarily take up their seatment allocation for the chalk talk.”1981, The Journal of the Chartered Institution of Building Services
   • Then Cyrenius took Milcah's hand and led the queen consort to her official place of seatment, after which the Sovereign mounted the dais and took his first perch on the imperial chair.2016, Joseph Cherian, Tubal-Cain: The City of the End Times, →ISBN