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A subdivision of a department. [France]

a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.

Aspiration. [Obs.]

The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. [R.] His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.

Assent; agreement. [Obs.]

The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

See Assythment. [Obs.]

A soiling; defilement.

a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods.

Mitigation; abatement.

A patch; an addition; a piece put on. [Obs.] John Lewis (1731).

Indemnification for injury; satisfaction. [Chiefly in Scots law]

Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. [Obs.] A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say. Holland.

Amazement. Coleridge.

nal suffering, and death of Christ. When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others. Spectator. The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter.

Black, like ink; inky; atramental. [Obs.] Derham.

Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.

ke ink; suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink.

r state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party.