[f. TABLE v. + -MENT, after L. tabulāment-um, f. tabulāre.]
1. Arch. = TABLE sb. 12 a; also, a foundation or basement.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 1678. A schippe be-houes þe to dight … Fiucten [ellen] on heght, þat es þentent, Fra grund vnto þe tabulment.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., A. 993. Vch tabelment watz a serlypez ston.
1489. Caxton, Faytes of A., II. xxxv. 147. An edyfyce made of grete tymber and of tablementes with many loftes and stallages.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), II. 604. Stones larger than small tablements of pillars or counting-bourds. Ibid. (1603), Plutarch’s Mor., 1196. We sat us downe upon the tablements on the South side of the temple.
1853. Parker, Turner’s Dom. Archit., II. v. 218. So that a decent stone tablement be made on the wall.
† 2. A wooden frontal for an altar: = TABULA 2.
1446. Yatton Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.), 86. Payde to W. Stubbe rydyng to Brystowe to see the tabylment.
1500. in Wiltsh. Archæol., etc., Mag. (1855), II. 310. Pd. for making of the tabullment of the High Altar.
1552. Inv. Ch. Goods Berksh., 24. A clothe to hange before the tablement.
† 3. A tabulation, list, catalogue. Obs. rare.
1551. Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., Ep. to King. And thus will I omit this great tablement of vnhappie hap.
