[f. as prec. + -MENT.] = BLASTING vbl. sb. (sense 3).
1602. Shaks., Ham., I. iii. 39. In the Morne and liquid dew of Youth, Contagious blastments are most imminent.
1803. Bristed, Pedest. Tour, II. 368. The pestilential blastments of contagion.
1817. Coleridge, Prel. Zapolya, ii. Wks. IV. 193. False glory, thirst of blood and lust of rapine … Shall shoot their blastments on the land.
