attendment

English

Etymology

Compare Old French atendement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈtɛndmənt/

Noun

attendment (plural attendments)

1. (obsolete) An attendant circumstance.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     the uncomfortable attendments of hell

Related terms

• attendement

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “attendment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)