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sepiment Now rare or Obs.|ˈsɛpɪmənt|
[ad. L. sēpīment-um, f. sēpīre to hedge, f. sēpes hedge.]
A hedge, fence, pale.
1656Blount Glossogr., Sepiment, an hedge, pale, mound or inclosure. 1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. xi. §3. 279 Such things as are used for the fencing of Places; Sepiment, Wall, Pale, Fence, Enclosure, Fold, Mound. 1905Longman's Mag. July 272 That hedge, its [an orchard's] southern sepiment..is a huge mass of bramble.
†b. transf. and fig. Something that encloses or guards.
1660Waterhouse Arms & Arm. 16 Making the sepiment of skyn which man is bounded with a symbol of his Mortality. 1678Lively Oracles ii. §27 A farther testimony and sepiment to which, were the Samaritan, Chaldee, and Greek versions. |