addimentn.

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie i. sig. (p6)^v As for the Præfectures of the Switzers, they are such lesser parcels and addiments as have accrewed to their Estate, and are subject unto their authority, either by gift, purchase, or the chance of war.

1826 Amer. Farmer 7 July 125/1 The nature of this fine animal [sc. the turtle] is not understood by European cooks; they distrust the genuine savour, and all but annihilate it by bilious addiments of their own composition.

1906 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 78 305 Notwithstanding, therefore, the progressive diminution of the available homologous proteid at each stage and the successive addiments of antiserum, the result is to show that in the final tube A there was no great residue of precipitin.

1969 U.S. Patent 3,425,862 4 These additional addiments may be those which confer upon the coating of the glass filament per se desirable properties.

1900 Lancet 14 Apr. 1059/1 For a serum to possess bacteriolytic properties two bodies must be present in it: first, a body of the nature of a digestive ferment..to which Ehrlich has given the name ‘complement’ or ‘addiment’.

1903 Jrnl. Hygiene 3 52 The supposed ferment (complement, addiment) upon which this power depends.

1985 Adv. Immunol. 37 153 He suggested that the bactericidal activity was due to two factors: a stable specific substance..and a heat labile factor, termed alexin or addiment and later complement, which did not increase during immunization.