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Confutation. [Obs.] Milton.

Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty. [Obs.] Milton.

That which is held together with another thing; that which is connected with a tenetment, or thing holden, as a certin quantity of land a Burrill.

Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan. [Obs.] Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. Glanvill. Active to meet their contrivements. Sir G. Buck.

Act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction. [R.] The fear of a convincement. Milton.

A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme. Shak.

A movement in opposition to another.

ion; combination; a coupling; a pair. [Obs.] Shak. And forth together rode, a goodly couplement. Spenser.

Cream; -- a term used esp. in cookery, names of liqueurs, etc.

Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light. Donne.

The act of debasing or the state of being debased. Milton.

Controversy; deliberation; debate. [R.] A serious question and debatement with myself. Milton.

Means of forming a decision. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Declaration. [Obs.]

Ornament. [Obs.]

state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss. Twit me with the decrements of my pendants. Ford. Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement. Woodward.

An accidental blowing off of, or other serious damage to, the breechblock of a gun; also, a removal of the breechblock for the purpose of disabling the gun.

Inference; deduction; thing deduced. [R.] Dryden.

The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.