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▪ I. hatchment1|ˈhætʃmənt|
[Shortened and altered from achievement (q.v.) through the forms atcheament, atchement, atch'ment.]
An escutcheon or ensign armorial; = achievement 3; esp. a square or lozenge-shaped tablet exhibiting the armorial bearings of a deceased person, which is affixed to the front of his dwelling-place.
1548Hall Chron., Hen. V, 50 The Hachementes wer borne onely by capitaynes. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 121 b, Because ye may the better vnderstande what suche achementes bee..It might be asked of me what thys worde acheuement meaneth. 1602Shakes. Ham. iv. v. 214 No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones. 1687Wood Life (O.H.S.) III. 216 A hatchment or achivment hanging over the great gate leading into Magd. Coll. 1747Hervey Medit. II. 62 The Hatchment suspended on the Wall, or the Crape streaming in the Air, are silent intimations. 1755T. H. Croker Orl. Fur. xli. xxx, Orlando, to adorn his atch'ment bright Did lofty Babel thunderstruck display. 1810W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXIX. 318 Ye windows dim with achments. 1864Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xiii. 108 It is customary to place on a Hatchment some brief legend of a religious character.
transf.1617Fletcher Valentinian iv. iv, My naked sword Stands but a hatchment by me; only held To shew I was a soldier. 1848Dickens Dombey xxx, With black hatchments of pictures blotching the walls.
attrib.1864Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xxix. (ed. 3) 444 Characteristics of modern hatchment-painting.
▪ II. † hatchment2 Obs.
[f. hatch v.2 + -ment.]
The ‘hatching’ with which the hilt of a sword is ornamented. (See hatch v.2 2.)
1616Beaum. & Fl. Scornf. Lady ii. ii, Five Marks in hatchments to adorn this thigh. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, clxxviii, Scabbards teare From over-rusted Blades, to furbish them Worthy the Hatchment they intend to weare. |