or shame, vengeance, subs. phr. (common).—The posteriors.

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  1725.  N. BAILEY, trans. The Colloquies of Erasmus, 225. A question … the most honourable part of a man? One … made answer … the … part we sit upon;… when every one cried out that was absurd, he backed it with this reason, that he was commonly accounted the most honourable that was first seated, and that this honour was commonly done to the part that he spoke of.

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  1749.  SMOLLETT, Gil Blas [ROUTLEDGE], 169. My SEAT OF VENGEANCE was firked most unmercifully.

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  d. 1796.  WOLCOT (‘Peter Pindar’), Pair of Lyric Epistles [Works (Dublin, 1795), ii. 424]. Behold him seiz’d, his SEAT OF HONOUR bare.

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  1821.  COMBE, Dr. Syntax, III. 2.

        While with his spade the conqueror plied,
Stroke after stroke, the SEAT OF SHAME,
Which blushing Muses never name.

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  1836.  MARRYAT, Mr. Midshipman Easy, xviii. 109. The bullet having passed through his SEAT OF HONOUR, from his having presented his broadside as a target to the boatswain.

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  1856.  Punch, xxxi. 213, 2. now I can vouch that, from the earliest ages to … those of the present head-master, they have, one and all, appealed to the very SEAT OF HONOR.

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