rare. [f. STEADY v. + -MENT.] A means of steadying; also, the condition of being steadied.
1810. Bentham, Offic. Apt. Maximized, Def. Econ. (1830), 67. Instrument attempted to be made for the ‘fixing himself in power,’ Burke’s East India Bill: a steadiment, containing in it a sort of pump, contrived for drawing from the East Indies the matter of wealth…. His grand instrument of steadiment and ‘fixation’ having failed.
1878. Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit., I. vi. 227. Its footing on the capital … requires as much steadiment as possible. Ibid. To give greater steadiment to the foot of the arch.
1894. Adm. Elliot, in Morn. Post, 15 May, 3/6. The wonderful steadiment produced by the clutch of the side keels of Hodgett’s patent form of vessel.
