Crossword clues for hatchment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Achievement \A*chieve"ment\ (-ment), n. [Cf. F. ach[`e]vement, E. Hatchment.]
The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object.
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A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat.
[The exploits] of the ancient saints . . . do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes.
--Barrow.The highest achievements of the human intellect.
--Macaulay. (Her.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.
--Cussans.
Wiktionary
n. (context heraldry English) An escutcheon of a deceased person, placed within a black lozenge and hung on a wall
Wikipedia
Hatchment may refer to:
- Hatchment (heraldic achievement), a full display of all the heraldic components to which the bearer of a coat of arms is entitled
- Funerary hatchment, a depiction within a black lozenge-shaped frame of a deceased's heraldic achievement
Usage examples of "hatchment".
Quartered in this dingy hatchment commemorative of Symond are the legal bearings of Mr.
He walked on until he saw the big painted hatchment over the doorway and the legend: British Consulate.
Mecca pilgrims paint on their houses like hatchments, on their safe return--proclamation of their prestige.
When I looked round upon the storied monuments, the stately hatchments, the cold marble pomp with which grandeur mourned magnificently over departed pride, and turned to this poor widow, bowed down by age and sorrow at the altar of her God, and offering up the prayers and praises of a pious though a broken heart, I felt that this living monument of real grief was worth them all.
Here also walked the domestics of the re-habilitated noble of Venice--the hatchments that had been doomed to oblivion freshly embroidered upon their sleeves above their tokens of crepe.
This cathedral among the moors, with its massive masonry, its dark oak carving, its fragments of gorgeous glass, its ghostly hatchments and banners, and its aisles paved with the tombstones of the dead, was a new revelation.
It silvered once again the old stone shields: sable shadows on a ground argent, a device older by far than the proud hatchments in gules and azure and vert which had long since peeled from the crumbling surfaces.
When I looked round upon the storied monuments, the stately hatchments, the cold marble pomp with which grandeur mourned magnificently over departed pride, and turned to this poor widow, bowed down by age and sorrow at the altar of her God, and offering up the prayers and praises of a pious though a broken heart, I felt that this living monument of real grief was worth them all.
Here also walked the domestics of the re-habilitated noble of Venice--the hatchments that had been doomed to oblivion freshly embroidered upon their sleeves above their tokens of crepe.
Quartered in this dingy hatchment commemorative of Symond are the legal bearings of Mr. Vholes.
A grand painted hatchment was already over the great entrance, and two very solemn and tall personages in black flung open each a leaf of the door as the carriage pulled up at the familiar steps.