seatments

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
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
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
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