单词 | hatchment |
释义 | hatchmentn.1 1. An escutcheon or armorial device; esp. a diamond-shaped or (occasionally) square panel or canvas with a deceased person's armorial bearings, affixed to his or her house during mourning and often afterwards placed in a church. Cf. achievement n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > formal or ceremonial mourning > [noun] > coat of arms or heraldic ornament hatchment1522 trickmenta1625 escutcheona1672 scutcheon1711 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > [noun] > armorial bearings or coat of arms armsc1325 blazonc1325 heraldy1390 coat-armour1393 coatc1400 hatchment1522 coat of arms1562 tokens1562 achievement1572 heraldry1594 coat-arms1623 emblazonment1799 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > escutcheon or shield > [noun] > hatchment hatchment1522 escutcheona1672 scutcheon1711 1522 Statutes Order of Garter xxv, in E. Ashmole Inst. Order of Garter (1672) App. sig. hv/1 Every Knyght within the yere of his stallation shall cause to be made a Scouchon of his armes, and hachementis in a plate of metall.., and that it be surely sett upon the backe of his stall. 1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 121v Because ye may the better vnderstande what suche achementes bee..It might be asked of me what thys worde acheuement meaneth. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. v. 212 No trophe sword, nor hatchment ore his bones. View more context for this quotation 1687 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 216 A hatchment or achivment hanging over the great gate leading into Magd. Coll. 1747 J. Hervey Medit. II. 62 The Hatchment suspended on the Wall, or the Crape streaming in the Air, are silent intimations. 1755 W. Huggins & T. H. Croker tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso II. xli. xxx Orlando, to adorn his atch'ment bright Did lofty Babel thunderstruck display. 1810 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 29 318 Ye windows dim with achments. 1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xiv. 106 It is customary to place on a Hatchment some brief legend of a religious character. 1940 Negro in Virginia viii. 76 A custom that was possibly adopted from the hatchments that gentlemen farmers displayed in Colonial days to announce a death. 1988 T. Woodcock & J. M. Robinson Oxf. Guide to Heraldry vii. 120 On a hatchment or monument the arms of a man's last wife should be impaled. 2015 Times (Nexis) 6 Mar. 33 Church furnishings, hatchments, wall paintings, monuments and especially monumental brasses are being severely disfigured from the effects of bat excreta. 2. In extended use: something resembling or likened to an armorial device, esp. when associated with death or mourning. Chiefly poetic. ΚΠ 1620 Hæc-vir sig. A4v Shamelesnesse, Foolishnesse, are the maine Hatch-ments..which you haue tane as rich spoiles to adorne you. a1625 J. Fletcher Valentinian iv. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ccccccc2v/2 My naked sword Stands but a hatchment by me; only held To shew I was a Souldier. 1679 S. Woodford Paraphr. upon Canticles 71 One Monstrous Body made, Above dry ground, below a confus'd Mass, Part Earth, with Briny Hatchments overlaid. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxx. 304 With black hatchments of pictures blotching the walls. 1973 H. Carruth From Snow & Rock 20 A dead young woodcock..sprawls in the hatchment of its soft plumage and clutches emptiness with drawn talons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † hatchmentn.2 Obsolete. Any of the inlaid lines of contrasting material with which the hilt of a sword may be ornamented; (also) ornamentation of this nature. See hatch v.2 1a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying > [noun] > piece of inlaid work hatchment1616 emblem1656 inlayingc1660 inlay1667 inlay work1884 1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie ii. sig. D2 Fiue Marks in hatchments to adorne this thigh. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V clxxviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 145 Scabbards teare From over-rusted Blades, to furbish them Worthy the Hatchment they intend to weare. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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