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augmentation|ɔːgmənˈteɪʃən|
Also 5 avmentacion, 5–6 augmentacyon, -cion, etc.
[a. OF. aument-, augmentacion (mod. -tion), ad. late L. augmentātiōn-em, n. of action f. augmentāre: see augment v. and -ation.]
1. The action or process of augmenting, making greater, or adding to; extension, enlargement.
1463Bury Wills (1850) 29 To haue the seyd iii s. iiij d. to the avmentacion of his lif loode. 1586Thynne in Animadv. Introd. 73 Both the historie of England & Scotland were half printed before I set pen to paper to enter into the augmentation..of them. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 165 The composition therefore of proportions is not in this case the augmentation of them. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxv. (1856) 313 Refraction, with its preternatural augmentation of the visual hemisphere, revisited us.
†2. The action or process of raising in estimation or dignity; exaltation, honouring. Obs.
1494Fabyan v. cxxiii. 100 And to the augmentacion of theyse wordis [he] shortly after restored to hym all such cyties. 1558in Strype Ann. Ref. I. App. iv. 5 Every augmentation..of such men in authority..is an encouragement of those of their sect. 1611Bible 2 Macc. v. 16 Dedicated by other kings, to the augmentation and glory and honour of the place.
3. The process of becoming greater; growth, increase.
c1486Bk. St. Albans, Her. in Dallaway Sc. Her. App. 110 The first son..is in hoope of augmentacion and encressyng of his patrimony. 1656Ridgley Pract. Physic 10 Old men are lesse nourished; also generation and augmentation ceaseth. 1825McCulloch Pol. Econ. iii. §7. 334 The..excessive augmentation of their numbers.
4. Augmented state or condition; increased size, amount, degree, etc.; increase.
1533Elyot Cast. Helth (1541) 46 Therof commeth augmentation of heat. 1630Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 49 Some generall Learning, which by diligence he enforced to a great augmentation. 1794Godwin Cal. Williams 50 The vices of Mr. Tyrrel in their present state of augmentation. 1825T. Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 71 The result was an augmentation of the revenue.
5. That by which anything is augmented; an addition, increase.
1576(title) Ane Compendious Buik of godlie Psalmes and spirituall Sangis..with augmentation of sindrie gude and godlie Ballatis, not contenit in the first editioun. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. ii. 85 More lynes then is in the new Mappe, with the augmentation of the Indies. 1872F. Duncan Roy. Regt. Artill. xxix. 381 Augmentations to the Regiment in the form of other battalions.
6. Her. An honourable addition to a coat of arms, either quartered with the family arms, or borne upon an escutcheon or canton.
1662Fuller Worthies (1840) I. 275 Authorized..to bear three Turks' heads, as an augmentation to his arms. 1864Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. xiii. 93 Complicated Augmentations..were granted by Henry VIII to his successive Consorts.
7. Med. ‘The period between the commencement and height of a fever.’ Mayne Exp. Lex. 1853.
8. Mus. The repetition of a subject (esp. in fugues) in notes double or quadruple those of the original.
1597Morley Introd. Mus. 24 Augmentation proceedeth of setting the signe of the more prolation in one part of the songe onely, and not in others. 1674Playford Skill Mus. i. vii. 24 A Large, Long, Breve, Semibreve..are Notes of Augmentation. 1869Ouseley Counterp. xv. 104 Imitation by augmentation is often introduced into fugues.
9. Sc. Law. Increase of stipend obtained by a Scottish parish minister by an action (Process of A.) in the Court of Teinds, against the titular or beneficiary, and heritors.
1653Milton Hirelings Wks. (1851) 370 As Glebes and Augmentations are now bestow'd. 1816Scott Antiq. (1879) II. xxxi. 139 A dreadful proser, particularly on the subject of augmentations, localities, tiends. 1868Chambers Encycl. I. 548 By 48 Geo. III. c. 138, it is enacted that no Augmentation shall be granted..till the expiration of 20 years from any Augmentation subsequent to the act.
10. Augmentation Court, Court of Augmentation(s, or ellipt. The Augmentation: a court established by 27 Hen. VIII, for determining suits and controversies in respect of monasteries and abbey-lands; so called because, by the suppression of monasteries, it largely augmented the revenues of the Crown. Dissolved by 1 Mary, sess. 2, cap. 10, and its records kept in the Augmentation Office. augmentationer, an officer of this court.
1542Brinklow Complaynt x. (1874) 24 Saue me from the court of the Augmentacyon! 1550Latimer Serm. bef. Edw. VI, I. 244, I speak to you, my masters, minters, augmentationers. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 977/1 Edward North knight, chancellor of the augmentation. 1884Athenæum 4 Oct. 423 The zeal that he showed in saving the records of the Augmentation Office [in 1834].
11. (Army). Promotion by augmentation (sc. of the number of officers): promotion by the issue of an additional commission, instead of by purchase of one previously existing. (Obsolete in use since the abolition of purchase.) |