augmentationn.
/ˌɔːɡmɛnˈteɪʃn/, /ˌɔːɡm(ə)nˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌɔɡmənˈteɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌɔɡˌmɛnˈteɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌɑɡmənˈteɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌɑɡˌmɛnˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ I. General uses.† 3. The action or process of raising in estimation or dignity; exaltation, honouring. Obsolete.In quot. ?a1439: the action or process of becoming wealthier or more powerful, advancement.
1. The action or process of becoming greater in number, size, or degree; growth, increase, intensification; an instance of this.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > becoming increased
augmentationa1398
multiplication1593
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ix. i. 516 Þere beþ sixe maner meovingis..generacioun, corrupcioun, alteracioun, augmentacioun, diminucioun, and chaunginge of place.
1486 Blasyng of Armys sig. fviiv, in Bk. St. Albans Ye first son..is in hoope of augmentacion and encressyng of his patrimony.
1511 H. Watson tr. St. Bernardino Chirche of Euyll Men & Women sig. F.iij And the vertues and good condycyons shal take augmentacyon & encreasynge in the people.
1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 25 In the second course of sicknesse, it is called Accessio, which is an augmentation to a more supreame power ouer the bodye.
1606 R. Peterson tr. G. Botero Treat. Magnificencie Cities iii. ii. 92 The propagation of man kinde, would encrease without end, and the augmentation of Cities would bee without terme.
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 10 Old men are lesse nourished: also generation and augmentation ceaseth.
1729 J. Martyn 1st Lect. Bot. 3 If..we mean by Life a power of augmentation and diminution.
1786 T. Baldwin Airopaidia xxxxvi. 198 How to account for the Augmentation of vesiculous Vapours into large solid Drops.
1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. iii. §7. 334 The..excessive augmentation of their numbers.
1899 Science 19 May 708/1 The rate of augmentation of temperature downwards is one degree per centimeter.
1931 E. A. Powell Thunder over Europe ii. 29 It is the daily augmentation of the army of unemployed..that gives the Nazis their strength.
2011 Sherbrooke (Quebec) Record (Nexis) 31 Jan. 5 An increase in the number of medical acts will inevitably lead to an augmentation in the number of errors committed.
2. The action or process of making something greater in number, size, or degree; extension, enlargement; an instance of this.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > making increased
multiplicationc1390
additionc1400
augmentationa1422
aggrandizing1635
a1422 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 444 (MED) For augmentacion of more deuocion of his peple to god.
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 29 To haue the seyd iii s. iiij d. to the avmentacon of his lifloode.
1537 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour (new ed.) i. xxii. f. 81 Reseruyng the wordes rype & redy, to frute and other thiges seperate from affaires... This do I now remembre for the necessary augmentation of our langage.
1587 F. Thynne Ann. Scotl. 464/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Both the historie of England & Scotland were halfe printed before I set pen to paper to enter into the augmentation..of them.
1610 A. Willet Hexapla in Danielem vii. 238 He vseth them onely for the augmentation of his temporall dominion.
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. ii. xiii. 122 The Composition therefore of Proportions is not in this case the Augmentation of them.
1759 Ann. Reg. 1758 151/2 The augmentation of the land forces, and the equipment of a fleet, were matters quite distinct from each other.
1797 Brit. Critic 9 309 He compares the effect produced by vapours, which make the sun appear much larger, to the augmentation of extent, occasioned by the breaking of the rays, in objects seen through a tube.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxv. 313 Refraction, with its preternatural augmentation of the visual hemisphere, revisited us.
1869 Observer 7 Feb. 5/2 The Great Western Railway Company's Widows', Orphans', and Superannuation Fund,..is still in need of augmentation to meet the demands upon it.
1913 W. M. Fullerton Probl. of Power i. ix. 68 The plan for the augmentation of the German army until it numbers 865,000 men.
2004 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 7 Dec. 13 The high-voltage interconnector between the two state power systems is close to capacity and sorely in need of augmentation.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > exaltation or glorification > [noun]
glorifyinga1340
augmentation?a1439
exaltation1490
erection1503
glorification1549
nobilitatinga1552
sublimating1559
ennobling1596
augmention1605
nobilitation1610
stellifyinga1612
engreateningc1614
superexaltation1618
subliminga1626
stellation1635
aggrandization1649
stellification1650
engrandizinga1652
aggrandizement1656
exaltment1660
apotheosis1738
princification1865
ennoblement1871
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. l. 737 (MED) In his encres and augmentacioun, Meeknesse off herte in hym gan waste & faile, and pride entrid.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxxiii. f. lix And to the augmentacion of theyse wordis [he] shortly after restored to hym all such Cyties.
1558 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. App. iv. 5 Every augmentation..of such men in authority..is an encouragement of those of their sect.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Macc. v. 16 Dedicated by other kings, to the augmentation and glory and honour of the place. View more context for this quotation
4. Something by which anything is augmented; an addition, an increase.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > an increase
eke894
increasec1384
eking1393
augmentationc1452
superexcrescence1479
access1548
accrue1548
accession1551
increasement1561
ekementa1603
afflux1603
accruement1607
increment1631
rise1654
plusa1721
raise1729
swell1768
gain1851
step-up1922
upcurve1928
build-up1943
c1452 J. Capgrave Treat. Augustine Orders in J. J. Munro Capgrave's Lives St. Augustine & St. Gilbert (1910) 148 (MED) The xj son hite Ioseph, and he is to sey a moring or augmentacion.
1485–6 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1485 1st Roll §24. m. 16 Ne had any other dignytee, benefice, or in any wise augmentacion by comendam, provision or otherwise.
1542 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 110 The few of the landis of Grottell set..for the augmentatioun of iij merkis yeirlie.
1578 (title) Ane Compendious buik of godlie Psalmes and spirituall Sangis..with augmentation of sindrie gude and godlie Ballatis not contenit in the first editioun.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. ii. 75 More lynes, then is in the new Mappe, with the augmentation of the Indies. View more context for this quotation
1650 Several Proc. Parl. No. 36. 509 The Commissioners..are hereby required..to pay unto the said Ministers from time to time the said augmentation, without demanding or receiving any Fee.
1703 Duke of Marlborough Let. 15 Apr. in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) I. 163 As to your desire of half the augmentation, I am pretty sure thay can't be in this country till towards the end of May.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxxiii. 254 The calendar of martyrs received..a considerable augmentation.
1872 F. Duncan Royal Regim. Artill. xxix. 381 Augmentations to the Regiment in the form of other battalions.
1941 Financial Times 1 May 1/1 It may yet be that even this latest augmentation might prove inadequate if the war lasts long enough.
2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 Aug. d4 Sierra Nevada flavored the beer with the fruit of the prickly pear cactus, a particularly regional augmentation that we thought worked well.
5. Augmented or intensified state or condition; increased number, size, or intensity.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increased state
augmentation?1537
?1537 T. Elyot Castell of Helthe ii. xxxi. f. 47v Therof commeth augmentation of heat.
1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. E2v Some generall learning, which by diligence, he enforced to a great augmentation.
1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. vii. 136 The vices of Mr. Tyrrel in their present state of augmentation.
1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 71 The result was an augmentation of the revenue.
1858 Herald (Melbourne) 14 Dec. 5/4 The papers..announce that immigration had increased, and that the sugar export was also in a condition of augmentation.
1929 Plant Physiol. 4 354 If..the consequent augmentation in material utilizable in respiration is a factor.
2011 V. Thomas et al. in T. H. Kolbe et al. Advances in 3D Geo-Information Sciences 165 Applications with such level of augmentation are said to be ‘strongly augmented’.
II. Specific uses.† 6. Medicine. The stage of a fever (or, in early use, an abscess or other inflammatory condition) between its onset and its height or peak. Obsolete.
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?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 104v, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Stat So þat þe resolutiues in þe begynnynge of þe enpostume be moste in quantite & in þe aumentacioun lesse.
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. ix. iii. f. ccxxviv/1 All these syrupes are good in the begynnyng and augmentation [L. augmento] of terciane feuers, comynge of subtyle Cholere.
1565 J. Hall Expositiue Table 93 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. The augmentation, vigor, and mouyng of of heate [in the quartane fever], are contrary to the tertian.
1651 P. Armin tr. F. Glisson et al. Treat. Rickets xx. 221 Galen..deduced the times of Feavers and Inflamations from the understandible alteration of them: that is, The begining from the crudity of the matter causing the diseas, the augmentation from the manifest coction therof; the state from the Excretion, and the Declination he computes from the Reduction of the Reliques to the Natural state.
1684 L. Di Capua Uncertainty Art of Physick 82 The Youth, to whom, contrary to the advice of Hippocrates, he foolishly gave Meat in the Augmentation of his Feavor, to the Patients mortal danger.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 53/1 Hippocrates remarked four stages in distempers; viz. the beginning of the disease, its augmentation, its state or height, and its declination.
1858 G. B. Wood Treat. Pract. Med. (ed. 5) I. i. 97 The febrile action..increases and again subsides, observing stated periods of augmentation and decline, but not disappearing entirely.
1900 A. Macalister in J. Hastings Dict. Bible III. 324/ Of all these fevers the Rabbinic physicians recognized four stages: incubation, beginning, augmentation, and decline or convalescence.
7. Frequently in plural and with the. More fully Court of (the) Augmentation(s) [compare post-classical Latin Curia augmentationum (1542, 1546 in British sources)] . A court established in 1536, during the reign of Henry VIII, in order to settle the disposal of the property of monasteries upon dissolution. Now historical.So called because, by the suppression of monasteries, the Court augmented the revenues of the Crown. It was amalgamated with the Exchequer in 1554, during the reign of Mary I, and its records kept in the Augmentation Office (see Augmentation Office n. at Compounds).
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > courts established by Henry VIII
Court of (the) Augmentation(s)1535
Court of Wards1561
Augmentation Court1592
1535–6 Act 27 Henry VIII c. 27 §4 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 570 In the office of Chauncellourshippe of the Augmentacions.
1538 T. Cromwell Let. 5 May in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 139 To myn assuryd loving Freend Sir Richard Riche Knight Chauncelour of the courte of the Augmentations.
?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors x. sig. C4v Saue me from the court of the augmentacyon.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1611/2 Sir Edward North knighte, Chauncellour of the Augmentation.
1645 J. Taylor Crop-eare Curried 35 Let them not meddle with the Dutchy Seale, the Exchequer Seale, the Seale of the Court of Wards and Liveries, not the Seale of the Augmentation.
1661 G. Carew Retrosp. Kings Revenue 10 She annexed all the Revenues of the Crown, which..had been within the Survey of the then dissolved Court of Augmentations..unto her Highness Court of Exchequer.
1749 J. Pote Hist. Windsor Castle 113 To pay the King and his Successors in the Court of Augmentation.
1843 T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries 129 It appears that this letter was addressed to the Chancellor of the Augmentations.
1873 Reliquary July 23 Auditor of the Court of Augmentation.
1940 Econ. Hist. Rev. 10 181 The lapse of the Court of Augmentations threw its business upon Chancery.
1961 Eng. Hist. Rev. 76 386 When I write of Yorkshire, I am, for convenience, following the Augmentations' division.
2008 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Mar. (Review section) 8 Monks rushed to liquidate their assets, while at Westminster the clerks of the new Court of Augmentations tallied up the loot.
8. Music. The compositional technique of modifying a theme or phrase by lengthening the time-values of the notes proportionally; the restatement of a theme or phrase in a rhythmically augmented form. Cf. diminution n. 5a.This technique is particularly associated with fugal writing.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > movement of parts > specific
report1502
augmentationc1570
diminution1597
consecution1655
inversion1664
imitation1728
sequence1737
oblique motion1786
Rosalia1786
triple progression1786
parallel motion1864
c1570 Art of Music (BL Add. 4911) f. 26v, in G. Strahle Early Music Dict. (1995) 21/2 Augmentation quhat is it... It is the moreing of nottis beyond ye just valour.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 24 Augmentation proceedeth of setting the signe of the more prolation in one part of the songe onely, and not in others.
1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 47 Augmentation..is the excrement of some Note. For in it is put a Minime for a Semibreefe.
1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 13 If it be a Long (which is a Note of Augmentation) 'tis foure Semibriefs.
1799 A. F. C. Kollmann Ess. Pract. Musical Composition (new ed.) ix. 65 Carry the said first piece of the subject, by augmentation, into its respective places as well as intervals of the replies.
1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint xv. 104 Imitation by augmentation is often introduced into fugues.
1893 Musical Times Dec. 591/1 The augmentation is truly characteristic of Beethoven.
1949 Musica Disciplina 3 145 The principles of diminution, augmentation, and inversion are fully present in the canons of the fifteenth century.
2012 Amer. Music 30 77 Similar musical situations occur with the augmentation and diminution of subjects in fugues by J. S. Bach.
9. Heraldry. A charge added to a coat of arms, typically granted by the sovereign as a special mark of honour.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > addition or mark of honour
addition1572
augmentation1610
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie vi. ii. 257 Receiued as an augmentation of honour..impaled with her paternall Coat.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Chesh. 179 Authorized..to bear three Turks-heads, as an Augmentation to his Armes.
1722 S. Bull Let. 14 Sept. in I. Newton Corr. (1977) VII. 211 Ye said Bull since his Majesties accession has had more business than before, by ye Augmentation in ye Royal Arms, but without any consideration.
1763 W. Guthrie Compl. Hist. Eng. Peerage II. 10 As a farther evidence of his lordship's royal descent, he had an augmentation to his antient arms.
1847 H. Gough Gloss. Terms Brit. Heraldry 31 Foreign sovereigns have occasionally granted augmentations to British subjects.
1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xiii. 93 Complicated Augmentations..were granted by Henry VIII to his successive Consorts.
1922 G. L. Kincaid Kincaid Geneal. 6 He had the Castle on the Kincaid shield granted as an honorable augmentation to his armorial bearings.
2015 Daily Gleaner (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 3 Aug. a1 Hatfield invited Her Majesty to celebrate the bicentennial by granting augmentations to the provincial coat of arms.
10. Scots Law. An increase of stipend obtained by a Scottish parish minister by an action in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors. Also: the fact of pursuing or obtaining such an increase (often in process of augmentation). Now historical and rare.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > of non-manual workers > increase of
augmentation1649
1649 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1649/1/288 All ministeris stipendis..shall be augmented to the said eight chalderis victuall.., and that notwithstanding of any former augmentatioune.
1669 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1669/10/127 The petitioners frie rent.., deduceing the saids ministers' stipends and augmentations, will not exceid the soum of fiftein thousand merk Scots.
1705 W. Forbes Treat. Church-lands & Tithes ii. vi. 302 The ordinary Impositions for Ministers Provisions and Augmentations.
1748 Memorial Mr. John Edmonston 8 In the Process of Augmentation 1650, neither the Minister of Cardross, the Patron of that Parish, nor the Heritors of these Lands, were called as Defenders.
1794 A. Murray in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XI. xvii. 240 As the stipend, when the present minister entered to the charge, did not exceed 72l., every thing included, he was obliged to pursue for an augmentation.
1811 T. Chalmers Jrnl. 20 Dec. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1849) I. 231 Had been apprized..that my augmentation was to be pled on the 18th.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. ii. 39 A dreadful proser, particularly on the subject of augmentations, localities, tiends.
a1856 G. Outram Lyrics, Legal & Misc. (1874) 54 Whoever shall oppose my claim for augmentation, I'll hold among my foes.
1868 Chambers's 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.
1896 W. K. Morton Man. Law Scotl. 21 On cause shown, the Court of Teinds grant a Decree of Augmentation of so many chalders of victual, and Modify the stipend at the increased amount.
1900 Aberdeen Weekly Jrnl. 15 Mar. 7/3 He had raised a process of augmentation before the Court of Teinds, and he claimed in that connection six chalders.
1933 Encycl. Laws Scotl. XIV. 365 The Act of 1925 provides that..the localling of any augmentation..shall be made and dealt with in such manner as the Court of Session may prescribe.
11. British Army. Chiefly in by augmentation. Promotion to a higher rank by the issue of an additional commission, arising from an expansion in the size of a regiment, instead of by purchase of a previously existing commission. Cf. purchase n. 7. Now historical.The term began to fall out of use after the abolition of purchase in 1871.
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1804 London Gaz. 15 May 622/1 Second Lieutenant John Longly to be First Lieutenant, by Augmentation.
1809 G. L. Wardle Charges against Duke of York 190/1 Q. Are you certain that it was not by brevet that he got his rank? A. I believe it was by augmentation, and not by brevet.
1863 Caledonian Mercury 2 Apr. 8/2 Second Captain A. D. Burnaby to be Adjutant, on augmentation.
1903 London Gaz. 1 May 2769/1 Captain Edward W. L. Urquhart to be Major, on augmentation.
2005 M. Springman Sharpshooter in Crimea 11 As he had no private wealth, he had only obtained his Lieutenant-Colonelcy by Augmentation.
12. The action or process of increasing the size of a part of the body by plastic surgery; an instance of this. Frequently with modifying word, as breast augmentation, lip augmentation, etc. Also attributive, esp. in augmentation mammoplasty.
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1953 Plastic & Reconstructive Surg. 11 404 (title) Augmentation mammaplasty by lipo-transplant.
1963 E. W. Peet & T. J. S. Patterson Essent. Plastic Surg. xiii. 282 (caption) Augmentation of a congenital small pinna.
1983 J. Jameson Diary 1 Apr. in J. Jameson & N. Strauss How to make Love like Porn Star (2004) iii. ix. 223 While I'm talking about hospitals my dads getting a chin augmentation.
1989 Looks Dec. 32/3 Lip augmentation involves injecting collagen or fat from another part of your body..into the lip area!
2003 National Post (Canada) 6 Mar. al3/6 American women who opt for ‘buttock augmentation’ in their quest for the body beautiful.
2016 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 21 Aug. 1 More than 50,000 people went under the knife last year for cosmetic procedures,..with breast augmentation the most popular surgery.
Compounds
Augmentation Court n. historical = Court of Augmentation at sense 7.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > courts established by Henry VIII
Court of (the) Augmentation(s)1535
Court of Wards1561
Augmentation Court1592
1592 Parsons' Advt. to Secretarie L. Treasurers of Ingland 12 He was vnder-butler, and afterward grew vp higher vntill by the augmentation court, and atturneship of the Wardes he came to be lord keeper.
1692 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 395 He received his maintenance out of the then Augmentation Court.
1871 Westm. Rev. Jan. 47/2 The bribery and oppression of the Augmentation Court and the Exchequer were so great that a man might as well enter into hell as into either.
1951 Burlington Mag. Feb. 46/1 An entry of the warrant for this pension is to be found amongst the records of the Augmentation Court of the same date.
Augmentation Office n. now historical an office of the Exchequer which assumed responsibility for the functions of the Court of Augmentations on its dissolution in 1554, and in which its records were preserved.The records of the Court of Augmentations are now kept in the National Archives.
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1622 T. Powell Direct. Search of Rec. in Chancerie 50 These are kept in a Treasurie neere to the Records of the Augmentation Office.
1703 W. Nicolson London Diaries 8 Feb. (1985) 200 Dr H referred me to Mr Battely Keeper of the Augmentation Office, to see a Counterfeit Saxon Charter.
1884 Athenæum 4 Oct. 423 The zeal that he showed in saving the records of the Augmentation Office.
1994 Anglo-Saxon Eng. 23 171 Madox appears to have spent much time transcribing original charters preserved in..the Augmentation Office.
Derivatives
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > other officers of specific courts
alderman1275
steward of the manor1303
Queen's (also King's) Proctor?a1425
remembrancer1451
augmentationer1550
associate1552
procurator-fiscal1564
proctor-fiscal1565
chafer1587
custos brevium1589
examiner1594
chafe-wax1607
exceptor1728
procurator general1740
Marshal of the (Court of) Admiralty1769
Pundit of the Supreme Court1827
1550 H. Latimer Moste Faithfull Serm. before Kynges Maiestye sig. Dvii I speake to you my masters mintters Augmentationers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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