beseat

present singular third person beseats · participle present beseating · participle past beseated · past beseated

1. rarereflexiveTo make seated; to seat.

   "Beseat yourselves, gentlemen, beseat yourselves," he insisted, pointing to a rough-hewn bench.

   1954, Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, translated by Stephen Becker, The Sacred Forest: Magic and Secret Rites in French Guinea, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 122

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   One of my abiding memories of the House of Commons is that of a huge frame padding through the door to the right of the Speaker's chair and beseating himself in a corner.

   2000, Ivo Mosley, editor, Dumbing Down: Culture, Politics, and the Mass Media, Thorverton, Devon; Bowling Green, O.H.: Imprint Academic, →ISBN, pages 14–15

   At that point I was so driven to impatience that I could not wait till I returned to my room, but beseated myself right there and then on the fourth floor, opened the little hardcover and happily rejoined my companions at the Mount of Purgatory.

   2006, Radhika Gorantla, Savour, New York, N.Y.; […]: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 68