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▪ I. † ˈditement1 Obs.
[f. dite v. + -ment: cf. OF. ditement (L. type *dictāmentum); but perh. often aphetic f. inditement, indictment.]
1. A written or spoken composition; = dite n.1 1. Sc.
1556Lauder Tractate 530, I wald beseik ȝour Maiesteis, My dytement did ȝov not displeis. 1562Winȝet Cert. Tractates iii. Wks. 1888 I. 25 Ane form of ditement maid for caus of exercise and priuat studie, as vsis to be in sculis. 1629Moore of Rowallan True Crucifix 22 (Jam.) Which holy ditements..Might serve his glorious image to present.
b. Inditing; dictation. Sc.
1599James I βασιλ. Δωρον 8 Some of them [apocryphe books] are no wais like the ditement of the Spirit of God.
2. A summons, an indictment.
a1308Pol. Songs (Camden) 198 That seli asse, That trespasid noȝt, no did no gilte..in the ditement was i-pilt. 1502Plumpton Corr. 171 Anthony Cliforth gave in the bill of dytement against my sone.
▪ II. † ˈditement2 Obs. rare.
[for *dightment, f. dight v. + -ment.]
That with which one is ‘dight’ or arrayed; raiment, array.
1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. 93 These Priests ditements being severally so many infernal serpents and scorpions to sting and bite the Devil. |