achieved

& a. [ACHIEVE.] a-chieve-měnt, s. [Fr. achèvement = a completion, a finishing.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. An heroic deed, an exploit succe fully carried out on the field of action. "The noble achievements of remote ancestors."Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xii. 2. An intellectual feat. "The highest achievements of the human intellect." -Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. iii. "I, as a man of science, feel a natural pride in scientific achievement."-Tyndall: Frag. of Science (srd ed.), iv. 93. II. Technically : Her. A complete heraldic composition, exhibiting the shield with its quarterings and impalements, together with its external acce ories of coronet, supporters, crests, motto, . Applied especially to a funeral escutcheon, exhibiting the rank and family of a deceased nobleman or gentleman, and placed on his demise in front of his house, or in some other conspicuous place. (HATCHMENT.] A cher us i an-achromatic