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Meaning of "dimidiation" in the English dictionary

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dɪˌmɪdɪˈeɪʃən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIMIDIATION

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Dimidiation is a noun.
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WHAT DOES DIMIDIATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dimidiation

In heraldry, dimidiation is a method of marshalling two coats of arms. For a time, dimidiation preceded the method known as impalement. Whereas impalement involves placing the whole of both coats of arms side by side in the same shield, dimidiation involves placing the dexter half of one coat of arms alongside the sinister half of the other. In the case of marriage, the dexter half of the husband's arms would be placed alongside the sinister half of the wife's arms. The practice fell out of use because the result was not always aesthetically pleasing, and also because in some cases, it would result in a shield that confusingly looked like one coat of arms rather than a combination of two. For instance, a bend combined with a bend sinister might result in a combination that simply looked like a chevron, thus hiding the fact that two coats of arms had been combined. In order to avoid these drawbacks, it became customary to use more than half of each coat of arms when combining them through dimidiation.

Definition of dimidiation in the English dictionary

The definition of dimidiation in the dictionary is division into halves. Other definition of dimidiation is the combination of two bearings so that they can be represented on the same shield.

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIMIDIATION»

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The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory
The methods of marshalling are (i) dimidiation, (2) impalement, (3) quartering, (4) superimpbsition. Instances of quartered shields are to be met with possibly before impalements or dimidiation. The earliest attempt at anything like a regularised ...
Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, 1904
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An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to ...
Benedictine Abbey at Feversham, Kent, with the same dimidiation and over all a crosier gu. Le Cynqportes, t. e. Dover, Hastings, Hythe, Romney, Rye, Sandwich, and Winchelsea, dimidiating az. three hulks of ships in pale or, T. Benedictine ...
John Woody Papworth, Alfred William Whitehead Morant, 1874
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An alphabetical dictionary of coats of arms belonging to ...
12991317, daughter of Philip (the Hardy) III, King of France, Z, 133. (Edward II,) with the same dimidiation by his wife Isabel Capet,1307-57, daughter of Philip ( the Fair) IV, King of France ; Z, 145. City of Chester, dimidiating az. three garbs or.
John Woody Papworth, Alfred William W. Morant, 1874
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Liturgica Historica: Papers on the Liturgy and Religious ...
On the contrary they must stick to their own local and traditional system of dimidiation ; and so there was nothing for it but to alter the text by substituting ' convenient ' new texts that would fit their own system. And the Roman Breviary still to-day ...
Edmund Bishop, 1918
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A Complete Guide to Heraldry
Both these coats are halved. They result from the marriage of Richard Clare, Earl of Hertford, with Juliana, daughter and heir of Maurice Fitzgerald, feudal lord of Incl quin and Youghal. An even more curious case of dimidiation comes to light in  ...
Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, 2007
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The Encyclopædia Britannica: A-ZYM
This is called dimidiation, and the shields so joined constitute an impalement. Another seal of Margaret of France illustrates this practice. In it half of England impales half of France. There is a good example of dimidiation in the tomb of William ...
Day Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith, 1903
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences ...
This is called dimidiation, and the shields so joined constitute an impalement. Another seal of Margaret of France illustrates this practice. In it half of England impales half of France. There is a good example of dimidiation iu the tomb of William ...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, ...
This is,called dimidiation, and the shields so joined constitute an impalemcnt. Another seal of Margaret of France illustrates this practice. in it half of England iinpales half of France. There is a good example of dimidiation in the tomb of William ...
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The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ...
This is called dimidiation, and the shields so joined constitute an impalement. Another seal of Margaret of France illustrates this practice. In it half of England impales half of France. There is a good example of dimidiation in the tomb of William ...
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: latest edition. A dictionary ...
This is called dimidiation, and the shields so joined constitute an impalement. Another seal of Margaret of France illustrates this practice. In it half of England impales half of France. There is a good example of dimidiation in the tomb of William ...
Day Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith, 1902
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