beseat

From be- +‎ seat.

beseat (third-person singular simple present beseats, present participle beseating, simple past and past participle beseated)

1. (reflexive, rare) To make seated; to seat.
   • 1954, Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, Stephen Becker, transl., The Sacred Forest: Magic and Secret Rites in French Guinea, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 122:

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

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

     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.

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

     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.

• beseated (adjective)

• unseat
• deseat
• reseat