tablement

English

Etymology

From Middle English tablement, from Anglo-Norman tablement; equivalent to table +‎ -ment.

Noun

tablement (plural tablements)

1. (architecture, obsolete) A table.
   • 1603, Plutarch, “Why the Prophetesse Pythia Giveth No Answers Now from the Oracle in Verse or Meeter”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1196:

     When we had fetched therefore a circuit about, we ſat us downe upon the tablements on the South ſide of the temple, nere unto the chappell of Tellus, that is to ſay, the Earth, where we beheld the waters of the Fountain Caſtilius, and the temple of the Muſes, with admiration, […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “tablement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tabulment, tabelment, tabylment

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman tablement; equivalent to table +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtaːbləˈmɛnt/, /ˈtaːbləmɛnt/

Noun

tablement (plural tablementis)

1. (rare) A level portion of a building.
2. (rare) A reredos.

Descendants

• English: tablement

References

• “tāblement, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 28 June 2018.