augmentorn.adj.

1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. miij^v/2 Conduytour of the frendes of god, Augmentour of the crysten fayth [Fr. augmenteur de la foy crestienne].

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Gg.viij^v Augmentours [Fr. augmentateurs] of the common welth.

1562 J. Shute tr. in Two Comm. Turcks ii. sig. S.iii^v The Turcks..wolde alwayes saye that Scanderbeg was..his moste assured defendour, and augmentour of his dominions.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 189 Amurath..the great avgmentor of their kingdome.

1665 J. Gadbury London's Deliv. Predicted viii. 39 The Stations, Transits, and ill Aspects of Saturn and Mars, in a time of Sickness, are the Augmentors thereof.

1711 J. Mackqueen Two Ess. 148 These are not only Significations of the other, but Augmentors of them in our selves.

1784 E. Sibly New & Compl. Illustr. Astrol. i. 99 The tenth column points out all the degrees in the twelve signs that are augmentors or increasers of fortune.

1846 London Pioneer 3 Sept. 302/3 That very sex whose softness ought to be the diminisher, not the augmentor of man's harsh nature.

1890 Times 31 July 5/4 A commemoration of the founder..and of the benefits conferred by him and by the executors and augmentors by his bounty.

1960 Rev. Politics 22 127 Australian augmentors of the central power had both the theory and practice of radicalism to support their cause.

2011 Leicester Mercury 10 Aug. 15/3 Jesus was a fervent preacher and augmentor of Jewish law.

1885 Johns Hopkins Univ. Circulars Oct. 7/2 The vagus in the Crocodilia, at least in the alligator, is not a pure cardial depressor, but is on the contrary a powerful cardiac augmentor.

1892 Lancet 27 Feb. 455/2 Excitation of the augmentors increases the output of the heart, owing to the increased force and frequence of the auricular contractions.

1934 Physiol. Zool. 7 79 He infers that the molluscan heart, without exception, is provided with cardio-regulative nerves—both augmentors and inhibitors.

1955 T. S. Hall & F. Moog Life Sci. vii. 307 Stimulation of the augmentors speeds the beat.

2004 I. M. Modlin & G. Sachs Acid Related Dis. (ed. 2) v. i. 247 McCrea claimed that the vagi were either ‘augmentors’ or ‘inhibitors’ of gastric function.

1910 H. C. Ross Induced Cell-Reprod. & Cancer 200 No azur stain, atropine, or other ‘augmentor’ was added; the decomposed suprarenal extract induced mitosis by itself.

1912 Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull. 23 377/1 The writers show that ‘swellings resembling tumors’ can be induced in animals ‘by the action of the same chemical substances which induce individual cell-multiplication’. These substances they call ‘auxetics’ and ‘augmentors’.

1918 J. A. Thomson in New Statesman 26 Jan. 400/1 The dying away [of pond life] in autumn and winter produces substances (‘auxetics’) which later on promote the multiplication of cells, and towards spring an increasing quantity of certain other substances (‘augmentors’) which give more power to the elbow of the first.

1884 W. H. Gaskell in Jrnl. Physiol. 5 46 Such opposing effects are evidently due to one of two causes, either (1) to the joint stimulation of nerves belonging to two separate nerve systems of which the one system contains purely inhibitory and the other purely augmentor fibres; (2) to the stimulation of nerves which are able sometimes to augment sometimes to inhibit the cardiac functions.

1892 Lancet 27 Feb. 457/1 The considerable rise of pressure in the systemic arteries in asphyxia is accompanied by vagus effects on the heart, and not by augmentor action.

1926 Discovery June 199/2 The heart is also under the simultaneous influence of another nerve whose functions are augmentor.

1941 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 177 s19 The action of sympatheticomimetic and parasympatheticomimetic drugs on the gut of Lumbricus is discussed, and evidence is presented showing that the augmentor nerves are cholinergic, and the inhibitors possibly adrenergic.

1961 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 July 244/1 In animal experiments, McCrea, McSwiney, and Stopford found the effect of vagal stimulation to be either augmentor or inhibitor according to the ‘tonus’ of the stomach at the time of stimulation.

1971 Compar. & Gen. Pharmacol. 2 175/1 The hearts of cyclostomes, elasmobranchs, and teleosts had been shown to contain catecholamines..and these substances have augmentor effects when applied to the isolated hearts.

2001 J. L. Ardell in N. Sperelakis et al. Heart Physiol. & Pathophysiol. (ed. 4) iii. 47/2 Angiotensin II..likewise activates many intrathoracic augmentor neurons, thereby enhancing regional cardiac function.