Seat - SEAT, n. [L. sedes, situs.]
1. That on which one sits; a chair, bench, stool or any other thing on which a person sits.
Christ--overthrew the tables of the money changers and the seats of them that sold doves. Mat 21.
2. The place of sitting; throne; chair of state; tribunal; post of authority; as the seat of justice; judgment-seat.
3. Mansion; residence; dwelling; abode; as Italy the seat of empire. The Greeks sent colonies to seek a new seat in Gaul.
In Albe he shall fix his royal seat. Dryden.
4. Site; situation. The seat of Eden has never been incontrovertibly ascertained.
5. That part of a saddle on which a person sits.
6. In horsemanship, posture or situation of a perosn on horseback.
7. A pew or slip in a chruch; a place to sit in.
8. The place where a thing is settled or established. London is the seat of business and opulence. So we say, the seat of the muses,the seat of arts, the seat of commerce.
SEAT, v.t.
1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down. We seat ourselves; we seat our guests.
The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.
Arbuthnot.
2. To place in a post of authority, in office or a place of distinction. He seated his son in the professor's chair.
Then high was king Richard seated. Shak.
3. To settle; to fix in a particular place or country. A colony of Greeks seated themselves in the south of Italy; another at Massilia in Gaul.
4. To fix; to set firm.
From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills. Milton.
5. To place in a chruch; to assign seats to. In New England, where the pews in churches are not private property, it is customary to seat families for a year or longer time; that is, assign and appropriate seats to their use.
6. To appropriate the pews in, to particular families; as, to seat a church.
7. To repair by making the seat new; as, to seat a garment.
8. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as, to seat a country. [Not used much.]
SEAT, v.i. To rest; to lie down. [Not in use.]
see - SEE, n.
1. The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop.
2. The seat of an archbishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archbishop; as an archiepiscopal see.
3. The seat, place or office of the pope or Roman pontif; as the papal see.
4. The authority of the pope or court of Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
SEE, v. t. [L. sequor, and Eng. essay, are all from the same radix. The primary sense of the root is to strain, stretch, extend; and as applied to see, the sense is to extend to, to reach, to strike with the eye or sight.]
1. To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and the apparent qualities of objects by the organs of sight; to behold.
I will now turn aside and see this great sight. Exo 3.
We have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Judg 18.
2. To observe; to note or notice; to know; to regard or look to; to take care; to attend, as to the execution of some order, or to the performance of something.
Give them the first one simple idea, and see that they fully comprehend before you go any farther. Locke.
See that ye fall not out by the way. Gen 45.
3. To discover; to descry; to understand. Who so dull as not to see the device or strategem?
very notable actions often lose much of their excellence when the motives are seen.
4. To converse or have intercourse with. We improve by seeing men of different habits and tempers.
5. To visit; as, to call and see a friend. The physician sees his patient twice a day.
6. To attend; to remark or notice.
I had a mind to see him out, and therefore did not care to contradict him. Addison.
7. To behold with patience or sufferance; to endure.
It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor. Ezra 4.
8. In Scripture, to hear or attend to.
I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Rev 1.
9. To feel; to suffer; to experience.
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil. Psa 90.
If a man shall keep my saying, he shall never see death. John 8. Luke 2.
10. To know; to learn.
Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren. Gen 37.
11. To perceive; to understand; to comprehend. I see the train of argument; I see his motives.
12. To perceive; to understand experimentally.
I see another law in my members. Rom 7.
13. To beware.
See thou do it not. Rev 19.
14. To know by revelation.
The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. Isa 2:8.
15. To have faith in and reliance on.
Seeing him who is invisible. Heb 11.
16. To enjoy; to have fruition of.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Mat 5.
SEE, v.i.
1. To have the power of perceiving by the proper organs, or the power of sight. Som animals, it is said, are able to see best in the night.
2. To discern; to have intellectual seght; to penetrate; to understand; with through or into; as, to see through the plans or policy of another; to see into artful schemes and pretensions.
3. To eximane or inquere. See wether the estimate is correct.
4. To be attentive.
5. To have full understanding.
But now ye say, we see, therefore your sin remaineth. John 19.
Let me see, let us see, are used to express consideration, or to introduce the particular consideration of a subject, or some scheme or calculation.
See is used imperatively, to call the attention of others to an object or a subject. See, see, how the balloon ascends.
See what it is to have a poet in your house. Pope.
See - SEE, n.
1. The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop.
2. The seat of an archbishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archbishop; as an archiepiscopal see.
3. The seat, place or office of the pope or Roman pontif; as the papal see.
4. The authority of the pope or court of Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
SEE, v. t. [L. sequor, and Eng. essay, are all from the same radix. The primary sense of the root is to strain, stretch, extend; and as applied to see, the sense is to extend to, to reach, to strike with the eye or sight.]
1. To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and the apparent qualities of objects by the organs of sight; to behold.
I will now turn aside and see this great sight. Exo 3.
We have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Judg 18.
2. To observe; to note or notice; to know; to regard or look to; to take care; to attend, as to the execution of some order, or to the performance of something.
Give them the first one simple idea, and see that they fully comprehend before you go any farther. Locke.
See that ye fall not out by the way. Gen 45.
3. To discover; to descry; to understand. Who so dull as not to see the device or strategem?
very notable actions often lose much of their excellence when the motives are seen.
4. To converse or have intercourse with. We improve by seeing men of different habits and tempers.
5. To visit; as, to call and see a friend. The physician sees his patient twice a day.
6. To attend; to remark or notice.
I had a mind to see him out, and therefore did not care to contradict him. Addison.
7. To behold with patience or sufferance; to endure.
It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor. Ezra 4.
8. In Scripture, to hear or attend to.
I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Rev 1.
9. To feel; to suffer; to experience.
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil. Psa 90.
If a man shall keep my saying, he shall never see death. John 8. Luke 2.
10. To know; to learn.
Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren. Gen 37.
11. To perceive; to understand; to comprehend. I see the train of argument; I see his motives.
12. To perceive; to understand experimentally.
I see another law in my members. Rom 7.
13. To beware.
See thou do it not. Rev 19.
14. To know by revelation.
The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. Isa 2:8.
15. To have faith in and reliance on.
Seeing him who is invisible. Heb 11.
16. To enjoy; to have fruition of.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Mat 5.
SEE, v.i.
1. To have the power of perceiving by the proper organs, or the power of sight. Som animals, it is said, are able to see best in the night.
2. To discern; to have intellectual seght; to penetrate; to understand; with through or into; as, to see through the plans or policy of another; to see into artful schemes and pretensions.
3. To eximane or inquere. See wether the estimate is correct.
4. To be attentive.
5. To have full understanding.
But now ye say, we see, therefore your sin remaineth. John 19.
Let me see, let us see, are used to express consideration, or to introduce the particular consideration of a subject, or some scheme or calculation.
See is used imperatively, to call the attention of others to an object or a subject. See, see, how the balloon ascends.
See what it is to habe a poet in your house. Pope.
Seek - SEEK, v.t. pret and pp. sought, pronounced sawt. [L. sequor, to follow; for to seek is to go after, and the primary sense is to advance, to press, to drive forward, as in the L. peto.]
1. To go in searh or quest of; to look for; to search for by going from place to place.
The man asked him, saying, what seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethen.
Gen 37.
2. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to endeavor to find or gain by any means.
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. Psa 104.
He found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Heb 12
Others tempting him, sought of him a sign. Luke 11.
3.Seek is followed sometimes by out or after. To seek out, properly implies to look for a specific thing among a number. But in general, the use of out and after with seek, is unnecessary and inelegant.
To seek God, his name, or his face, in Scripture, to ask for his favor, direction and assistance. Psa 83.
God seeks men, when he fixes his love on them, and by his word and Spirit, and the righteousness of Christ, reclaims and recovers them from their miserable condition as sinners.
Ezek 34. Psa 119. Luke 15.
To seek after the life, or soul, to attempt by arts or machinations; or to attempt to destroy or ruin. Psa 35.
To seek peace, or judgement, to endeavor to promote it; or to practice it.
Psa 34. Isa 1.
To seek an altar, temple, or habitation, to frequent it; to restore to it often.
2 Chr 1. Amos 5.
To seek out God's works, to endeavor to understand them. Psa 111.
SEEK, v. i.
1. To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.
Seek ye out of the book of the Lord. Isa 34.
2. To endeavor.
Ask not what pains, nor further seek to know
Their process, or the forms of law below. Dryden.
To seek after, to make pursuit; to attempt to find or take. [See No. 3 supra.]
To seek for, to endeavor to find. Knolles.
To seek to, to apply to; to resort to. 1 Ki 10.
To seek, at a loss; without knowledge, measures or experience.
Unpractic'd, unprepar'd and still to seek. Milton. [This phrase, I believe, is wholly obsolete.]
Self - SELF, a. or pron. plu. selves; used chiefly in composition.
1. In old authors, this sometimes signifies particular, very, or same. "And on tham sylfan geare;" in that same year, that very year. Sax. Chron. A.D. 1052, 1061.
Shoot another arrow that self way. Shak.
On these self hills. Raleigh.
At that self moment enters Palamon. Dryden.
In this sense, self is an adjective, and is now obsolete, except when followed by same; as on the self-same day; the self-same hour; the self-same thing; which is tautology.
2. In present usage, selfis united to certain personal pronouns and pronominal adjectives, to express emphasis or distinction; also when the pronoun is used reciprocally. thus, for emphasis, I myself will write; I will examine for myself; Thou thyself shalt go; thou shalt see for thyself; You yourself shall write; you shall see for yourself. He himself shall write; he shall examine for himself. She herself shall write; she shall examine for herself. The child itself shall be carried; it shall be present itself.
Reciprocally, I abhor myself; thou enrichest thyself; he loves himself; she admires herself; it pleases itself; we value ourselves; ye hurry yourselves; they see themselves. I did not hurt him, he hurt himself; he did not hurt me, I hurt myself.
Except when added to pronouns used reciprocally, self serves to give emphasis to the pronoun, or to render the distinction expressed by it more emphatical. "I myself will decide," not only expresses my determination to decide, but the determination that no other shall decide.
Himself, herself, themselves, are used in the nomnative case, as well as in the objective.
Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples. See Mat 23:4.
3. Self is sometimes as a noun, noting the individual subject to his own contemplation or action, or noting identity of person. Consciousness makes everyone to be what he call self.
A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world. Pope.
4. It also signifies personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness.
The fondness we have for self- furnishes anothe long rank of prejudices. Watts.
Self is much used in composition.