Also logiament, 8 logement. [a. F. logement (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), f. loge-r to LODGE: see -MENT.
Evelyn’s form logiament seems to be quasi-It.; but cf. parliament.]
1. A place or building in which persons or things are lodged, located or deposited; a place of shelter or protection; in early use Mil., quarters for soldiers. ? Now rare or Obs.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, I. ii. 9. The souldier giuen to this vice … doth disturbe all townes … and all lodgements.
1641. Evelyn, Diary (1879), I. 32. It is a matchless piece of modern fortification, accom’odated with logiaments for the souldiers and magazines.
1696. C. Leslie, Snake in Grass (1697), 334. This, and not Prisons, had been the proper Lodgement for Fox and Muggleton.
1713. Derham, Phys.-Theol., IV. xiv. (1714), 251. Such Balls, Cases, and other commodious Repositories as are an admirable Lodgment to the Eggs and Young.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XIV. 18. Within the space were rear’d Twelve ample cells, the lodgment of his herd.
1760. Styles, in Phil. Trans., LI. 844. Separate lodgements, each of which contains a single bee.
1764. in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1886), II. 263. Design for a lodgement of fire engines.
1818. Art Preserv. Feet, 108. The leather [of a boot] itself will form a lodgement for the corn.
b. A lodging-place; a lodging-house; lodgings. Now rare.
1703. Maundrell, Journ. Jerus. (1732), 2. Certain publick Lodgments founded in Charity for the use of Travellers.
1847. Thackeray, Lett. (1887), 8. Come … and stop with me until you have found other lodgment.
1850. Maxwell, Lett., in Life, vi. (1882), 148. Getting room for my father (as the Bull was full) in a lodgement.
1865. Bright, Sp., Reform, 18 Jan. Personages who have their lodgment higher up Whitehall.
1867. Ingelow, Dreams that came true, xxiv. Her scanty earnings, and her lodgment cold.
c. Gunnery. ‘The hollow or cavity in the under part of the bore, where the shot rests when rammed home’ (1872–6 Voyle & Stevenson, Milit. Dict.).
2. Mil. A temporary defensive work made on a captured portion of the enemy’s fortifications to make good the position of the assailants and protect them from attack.
1677. Lond. Gaz., No. 1187/2. We began to work for the raising a Battery, and the making a Lodgment to secure it. Ibid. (1708), No. 4470/3. A new Communication was made on the Grand Lodgment between the two Counterguards.
1884. Mil. Engineering, I. II. 108. It is usually advisable to make a lodgment as quickly as possible, and for this purpose to bring up the working party rapidly.
3. The action of lodging; the fact of being lodged.
a. The action of establishing oneself or making good a position on an enemy’s ground, or obtaining a foothold; hence, a stable position gained, a foothold. Chiefly in phr. to make or find a lodgement.
1702. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), V. 229. They were gone to Vigo,… if they found it practicable, to make a lodgment there.
1777. Robertson, Hist. Amer., II. v. 116. Cortes durst not … attempt to make a lodgment in a city.
1853. Sir H. Douglas, Milit. Bridges, 209. The troops made good their landing, attacked the enemy, and established a lodgment.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. ix. 62. My friend, who had found a lodgment upon the edge of a rock.
1897. Gen. H. Porter, in Century Mag., Jan., 353. Many of our men succeeded in getting over the earthworks, but could not secure a lodgment which could be held.
transf. and fig. 1757. Burke, Abridgm. Eng. Hist., Wks. 1842, II. 410. But then the minister must have taken it up as a great plan of national policy, and paid with his person in every lodgment of his approach.
1824. W. Irving, T. Trav., I. 348. I was not perfectly sure that I had effected a lodgment in the young lady’s heart.
1868. Milman, St. Paul’s, iv. 78. Wycliffe had made a dangerous lodgment in the City of London.
1884. L. J. Jennings, in Croker P., I. viii. 222. An intention which seems … never to have held more than a temporary lodgment in his mind.
b. The action of placing in position, or of providing with a receptacle.
1713. Derham, Phys.-Theol., VII. ii. (1714), 355. The Structure and Lodgment of the Lungs.
1875. Sir W. M. Turner, in Encycl. Brit., I. 827/2. The lower end of the bone … is marked posteriorly by grooves for the lodgment of tendons passing to the back of the hand.
c. The action of depositing (a sum of money, securities, etc.); concr. a deposit of money. Now only legal.
1760–72. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), II. 121. He … has entered all his lodgments in feigned names.
1825. Hor. Smith, Gaieties & Grav., II. 243. The lodgments made by the players.
1884. Law Rep., 27 Chanc. Div. 243. A decree for … lodgment in Court of a sum then in the District Registry.
1886. Law Times, LXXXI. 59/2. S. had gained no priority over T. by S.’s prior lodgment of the stop-order.
d. The ‘lodging’ of a thing or the accumulation of matter intercepted in fall or transit; concr. a mass of matter so lodged.
1739. S. Sharp, Surg. (J.). An oppressed diaphragm from a mere lodgment of extravasated matter.
1767. Gooch, Treat. Wounds, I. 98. The lodgment of blood or other fluid may easily affect the brain by compression.
1823. Buckland, Reliq. Diluv., 123. Wherever there was a ledge, or shelf or basin, however minute,… there these materials have found a lodgement.
1862. Beveridge, Hist. India, III. ix. iv. 633. The plains on both sides are covered at this season by heavy lodgments of water.
1878. Huxley, Physiogr., 21. Some [rain] finding lodgment in little hollows of the rock.
e. ? A body of persons established in a place.
1830. Everett, Orat. (1850), I. 218. There is a great lodgment of civilized men on this continent.
4. Accommodation in a lodging-place; provision of lodgings; lodging. rare.
1805. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., III. 65. The French spend less in hospitality, more in lodgement than the English.
1824. W. Irving, T. Trav., I. 18. The miserable lodgement and miserable fare of a provincial inn.
1853. Lytton, My Novel, II. vii. 80. ‘For the board and the lodgment, good,’ said Riccabocca.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., I. IV. ix. 477. Retinue sufficient find nooks for lodgment in the poor old Schloss.
