seatment

noun

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.””

   “The order stated that, 'the Sufferings of the Petitioner are most apparent and his resoluteness to abide his plantation ag't all attempts and consipiracies or our Indian enemies for many years hath (as may well be supposed) maintained us in the seatment of the upper parts of Rappahannock for many miles'.”

2. The act or manner in which something has been seated; placement.

   “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, ...”

   “So in five cases, due to improper seatment of pins in distal fragment, pins penetrated towards patellar region damaging articular cartilage.”

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;”

4. The act of sitting.

   “So I was ready to ask “folks to momentarily take up their seatment allocation for the chalk talk.””

   “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.”