sitted

Verb

sit (third-person singular simple present sits, present participle sitting, simple past sat or (dated, poetic) sate, past participle sat or (dated, poetic) sate or (archaic, dialectal) sitten)

1. (copulative, intransitive) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
   • After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.

   Synonyms:

   be seated

2. (intransitive) To move oneself into such a position.
   • I asked him to sit.

   Synonyms:

   be seated, sit down, sit up, take a seat

3. (intransitive) To occupy a given position.
   • The dishes are still sitting on the table!

   Synonyms:

   be

4. (copulative, intransitive) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
   • And Moses said to […] the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here?1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 32:6
5. To be a member of a deliberative body.
   • I currently sit on a standards committee.
6. Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
   • In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session?

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Adjective

seated (not comparable)

1. Sitting.
2. Of a woman's skirt, stretched out and baggy over the wearer's buttocks from much sitting while wearing the skirt.
   • ... but she was very conscious, too, of her Saturday-morning appearance - of her blouse, which she'd once unpicked and refashioned in an attempt at 'make-do and mend', and her old tweed skirt, rather seated at the back.2011 February 3, Sarah Waters, The Night Watch, Hachette UK, →ISBN
3. Fixed; confirmed.
   • "Why, everything about the colonel seems so seated, so ingrafted in his nature, so--so very self-satisfied, that I am afraid it would be a difficult task to take the first step in amendment--to convince him of its necessity?1852, James Fenimore Cooper, Precaution
4. Located; situated.
5. Furnished with a seat.
   • There was a rush-seated chair with a hole in the seat, — and that […] seemed to be all that the room contained.1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle