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† ˈsortment Obs.
[f. sort v.1 + -ment. Cf. It. sortimento.]
1. The action or process of sorting, separating, or arranging; sortation, classification.
1598Barret Theor. Warres 69 The due sortement and matching of these weapons to offend, and defend. 1622F. Markham Bk. War v. iii. 170 The iust number of the Army, together with the true sortment and division of euery weapon. 1755in Johnson. 1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 233 When it comes to grass they make a sortment of the larger stones from the smaller.
2. A collection of assorted goods or articles; a sorted set or lot; an assortment.
1621in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1906) I. 326 To write the bymarke of the sortement of every chest. 1657in Thurloe's St. Papers (1742) VI. 56 In March we expected most of our chiefe merchants to come out for their easter sortment, against which tyme I desired you would be pleased to give orders at Freshford. 1719W. Wood Surv. Trade 246 Manufacturing and making up proper Sortments of Goods. 1766T. Brooks Coins E. Indies 67 The finest Hysons, and all other Sortments of the Green-Teas.
b. transf. A set or number of persons.
1710Milbourne Meas. Resist. 4 When a sortment of priests, as he with a peculiar elegance, expresses it, endeavour to bully us into slavery. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 39 A hundred and fifty visits,..and through such a sortment too, as your mercers say.
c. A kind or class of things.
1718Quincy Compl. Disp. 8 The Lightness of this Sortment of Matter. 1720― in Phil. Trans. XXXI. 76 Thus for all cutaneous Foulnesses..the Cinnabar, the æthiops, and all of that Sortment are in readiness. |