supplementaryadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌsʌplᵻˈmɛnt(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˌsəpləˈmɛn(t)əri/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: supplement n.¹, -ary suffix¹.

Etymology: < supplement n.¹ + -ary suffix¹. Compare French supplémentaire (1790). Compare earlier supplemental adj.

A. adj.

1. Of the nature of, forming, or serving as a supplement. With to.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adjective] > making complete > by supplying what is wanting

supplemental1605

supplianta1616

suppletorya1631

suppletive1633

expletive1652

eking1653

supplementary1667

makeweight1701

suppl.1800

supplementing1851

make-up1885

add-on1955

1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety xviii. 399 Divinity would not then pass the Yard and Loom,..nor Preaching be taken in as an easier supplementary Trade, by those that disliked the pains of their own.

1713 Ld. Shaftesbury Notion Hist. Draught Judgm. Hercules vi. 41 We shou'd take care not to afford it this occasion of Error and Deviation, by introducing into a Piece of so uniform a Design, such Appendices, or supplementary Parts.

1770 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) IV. Ded. p. iv To you therefore I address this little supplementary work.

1793 T. Beddoes Let. to E. Darwin 9 These I shall from time to time submit..as supplementary to the knowledge accumulated by former experience.

1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. Mar. 272/2 Competence to age is supplementary youth.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 287 To this Claim..was added a supplementary paper containing a list of grievances.

1855 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Feb. 154/2 ‘Allow me,’ said I, after a little thought, ‘to ask you a supplementary question or two’.

a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1864) II. vi. 437 Each is supplementary to the other; so that in order to understand either, it is necessary to study both.

1908 Athenæum 15 Aug. 182/2 A supplementary volume of whose memoirs was published a few years ago.

1937 National Math. Mag. 12 80 Prof. Gino Loria, Genoa: Supplementary remarks on his plenary lecture.

1985 J. Laffin War of Desperation 205 Palestinian forces fall into four categories: (a) the regular Palestine Liberation Army—PLA; (b) quasi-regular units of the various organisations; (c) militias, supplementary to the various quasi-regular units; and (d) terror squads.

2008 A. M. Körner Guide to Publishing Sci. Paper (new ed.) xiv. 82 Some editors and reviewers now suggest that authors should remove certain results from their papers and publish them on the internet as Supplementary Information.

2. In various technical uses, in sense A. 1.

a. Law, Parliament, and Finance.

(a) Of acts, estimates, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > [adjective] > various epithets applied to laws

vagabondc1485

strait1503

strict1578

unrelaxable1615

sanguinary1625

standard1660

formal1701

supplementary1714

eludible1735

organic1831

antinomic1849

loopy1856

antinomical1877

contravenable1880

violable1885

nexal1886

entrenched1920

hard1935

1714 Laws Province Pennsilvania 168 A Supplementary Act to an Act entituled, An Impost Act.

1773 J. Montgomery et al. Honourable John Douglas, & Guardians,—Appellants. Sholto Charles Earl of Morton,—Respondent. Respondent's Case 4 If it could be considered in any other light than as a supplementary Deed, in case of falling short.

1826 G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scotl. (ed. 5) II. 214 Of Supplementary Deeds or Acts.—These are certain acts and steps of conveyancing necessary for supplying the links of a defective conveyance.

1826 G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scotl. (ed. 5) II. 409 Of the method of affecting the acquisitions of the bankrupt subsequent to sequestration... The best method..is, that the trustee..shall apply to the Court for a supplementary sequestration.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. (at cited word) When all the parties interested have not been called, or where the original summons requires amendment, and the defender has not appeared, a supplementary or auxiliary summons is necessary.

1841 Hansard Commons 5 Mar. 1361 He had..felt it his duty late in the year, to bring forward a supplementary estimate of 22,000l, to carry into effect the recommendation of the naval and military commission, which increased the estimates for the whole year to 6,185,000l.

1920 W. S. Churchill Let. 3 Mar. in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1969) II. Compan. ii. xiii. 985 The House is now discussing peacefully the supplementary Estimates of the Navy.

1977 J. Morgan in R. Crossman Diaries III. 124 The House of Commons must annually debate and pass three Consolidated Fund Bills, authorizing the issue of the supply of funds to cover the civil and defence estimates and supplementary estimates.

1994 T. Byrne Local Govt. in Brit. (ed. 6) p. xviii (Gloss.) Supplementary rate (or precept) , an extra levy, in addition to the regular, annual local tax.

2006 Hill Times (Canada) 8 May 15/4 Supplementary estimates..are the means by which a government reallocates resources during the year to reflect new priorities.

(b) Esp. of state welfare payments. See also supplementary benefit n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [adjective] > types of state allowance

supplementary1864

National Assistance1948

social securitya1974

1864 Rep. Commissioner of Pensions 1 Nov. in Message President U.S. to Congr. 516 The supplementary pension act of July 4, 1864.

1875 C. Bancroft Footpr. of Time 342 The supplementary Pension Act, approved June six, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, provides increased rates of pensions over those granted by the Act of July fourteen.

1911 Times 4 May 7/3 It was originally proposed that employers, employed, and the State should contribute to the insurance in equal parts, and that each should pay one-third; but this was strongly opposed and eventually abandoned for the plan of a supplementary allowance as the contribution of the State.

1920 A. Gleason What Workers Want iii. i. 385 A complete and comprehensive scheme of unemployment provision extending to all workers on a non-contributory basis should be instituted at the earliest possible moment... There should be, in addition to the flat rate, a supplementary allowance for dependent children.

1940 Economist 27 Jan. 141/2 The direct cost involved in the change over to a new central organisation for the payment of supplementary pensions is..nil.

1966 Whitaker's Almanack 1109/1 The supplementary pension may be claimed by persons over pension age and the supplementary allowance by persons aged 16 or over but under pension age, who are not in full-time work.

1993 M. F. Davis Brutal Need vii. 87 The hotel had returned a supplementary welfare check issued to Kelly to pay for a winter coat.

2009 D. Hummelsheim in H.-J. Andress & D. Hummelsheim When Marriage Ends ii. ii. 64 Social assistance [in Germany] consists of a standard rate, accommodation rate, heating costs, supplementary assistance for certain groups (for example, single parents) and health insurance.

b. Military (now historical).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [adjective] > auxiliary

auxiliary1603

supplementary?1793

?1793 (title) The Supplementary militia.

1796 Act 37 Geo. III c. 3 §2 If a sufficient Number of Officers..cannot be found to accept of Commissions in the Supplementary Militia..it shall be lawful for the said Lieutenants..to appoint for that Service, such a Number of the Officers in the Army..as his Majesty shall approve.

1797 Act 38 Geo. III c. 17 §10 in Statutes at Large XLI. 586 If any person of the said supplementary militia..(not labouring under any infirmity incapacitating him to serve as a supplementary militia man), shall not appear and march in pursuance of such order, every such militia man shall be liable to be apprehended and punished as a deserter.

1874 United Service Mag. Apr. 483 An Order was made for all the Supplementary Militiamen for the several Wapentakes of the West Riding, to assemble at their respective divisions on the 5th March following.

1891 P. A. Ashworth tr. R. Gneist Hist. Eng. Constit. (new ed.) vi. xlvi. 632 In the later statutes, the strength was fixed at 120,000 men, and in like manner, the number of supplementary militia was limited.

2006 C. J. Fedorak in M. Philp Resisting Napoleon v. 96 Of this force, 50000 were to be raised in the first instance as the old militia, and then 20000 as a new, or supplementary, militia.

c. Mathematics. Of an angle or arc: constituting the supplement of a given angle or arc; (of two angles or arcs) supplements of each other; adding to two right angles (180 degrees).An earlier term was supplemental adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [adjective] > other

sidelong1654

semirect1656

subtended1759

supplementary1809

explementary1830

reflectional1848

reflex1869

multi-angled1908

1809 J. Leslie Elem. Geom. vi. 194 For the supplementary angles at the base must be together equal..and consequently they are equal to each other.

1871 J. R. Morell Ess. Geom. 90 If two adjacent dihedral angles are not equal, the greater is styled obtuse, and the less acute, and they are supplementary.

1926 M. Lowry Let. 6 May in Sursum Corda! (1995) I. 22 If a quadrilateral is described about a circle, the angles subtended at the center by any two opposite sides are supplementary.

1966 Current Anthropol. 7 238/1 Subtract this value of ‘gamma’ from 180° to get the value of the supplementary angle dca.

2007 R. N. Aufmann et al. Algebra (ed. 4) iii. 208 Adjacent angles of intersecting lines are supplementary angles.

B. n.

1. A person or thing supplementary to another.

ΚΠ

1798 Standing Orders for Yeomanry Corps Ireland 4 They will enquire in what manner the arms of the Corps, and particularly of the Supplementaries, are disposed of.

1812 R. Southey in Edinb. Ann. Reg. 1810 3 i. 485/2 Supplementary deputies were then to be chosen, who were to take their seats in case of any vacancy by death; the supplementaries were, as nearly as could be, in the proportion of one to three.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 304 The prayers..are simply preliminaries and supplementaries to the sermon.

1902 A. Terton Lights & Shadows in Hosp. i. 3 I was called a ‘supplementary’, which was a dignified title for a charwoman.

1957 K. G. Davies Royal Afr. Co. ii. ii. 60 African products, mainly gold and ivory, were valuable supplementaries to the negro trade, and sugar.

1963 M. P. Fogarty in J. L. Meij Internal Wage Struct. ii. 50 Table 18 shows in more detail the effect of supplementary and substitute payments on certain operatives' earnings. For engineering labourers and craftsmen supplementaries accounted for 27½%.

1988 Parl. Affairs 41 365 Supplementary Estimates..are published at the same time each year. Summer Supplementaries appear in June.

2005 M. Krishnaraj in C. Risseeuw et al. Care, Culture & Citizenship ii. 59 This supplementary benefit was independent of the partner's income. On termination of the supplementary he or she could get entitlement to social assistance if he or she was 50.

2. Parliament. A question supplementary to that put down on the question paper.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > [noun] > act or instance of > additional

supplementary1901

1901 Times 19 Feb. 6/3 On Friday, the 30th, five questions were put, and no supplementaries.

1902 Hansard's Parl. Deb. 4th Ser. 117 231 If the sixty or sixty-five Questions with their supplementaries were not sufficient to satisfy the curiosity of the House, answers in writing would afterwards be circulated to the other Questions.

1941 H. E. Dale in M. Young Rise of Meritocracy (1994) 128 The perfect reply to an embarrassing question in the House of Commons is one that is brief,..gives no opening for awkward ‘supplementaries’, and discloses really nothing.

2005 M. Rush Parl. Today ix. 213 Other Members may also ask supplementaries, but the Speaker will not allow a debate to develop.

Compounds

supplementary air n. Physiology (now rare) = expiratory reserve volume n. at expiratory adj. Additions.

ΚΠ

1843 J. Jeffreys Views Statics Human Chest i. 4 Then we have, on the top of this, the large bulk, which we can expel after an ordinary out-breathing; this may be named the supplementary air, it being the quantity filling the chest below the region of respiration.

1908 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 3 Dec. 762/1 This is the reserve or supplementary air of Hutchinson.

1963 B. Christiansen Thus Speaks Body ii. 53 We should expect..an expulsive character to show little supplementary air.

supplementary benefit n. spec. (in the United Kingdom) a form of welfare payment which replaced National Assistance in 1966 and was superseded by income support in 1988.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > state allowance > other state benefits

maternity benefit1911

universal basic income1935

constant attendance allowance1945

death grant1946

National Assistance1948

negative income tax1950

assistance1956

supplementary benefit1966

attendance allowance1969

income support1969

mobility allowance1974

UBI1993

1966 Hansard Commons 7 Mar. 1730/2 Will the right hon. Lady confirm whether supplementary benefits will now be the subject of Parliamentary Questions to her?

1977 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 70 602/1 That there are five million people in receipt of supplementary benefit is as much a sign of affluence as poverty for of households receiving benefit 96% have television, 68% washing machines, 62% a refrigerator and 23% a car.

1985 Daily Tel. 4 June 6/6 Income support is the name of the new benefit which will replace Supplementary benefit, criticised by the Green Paper as too difficult for claimants to understand and too complex for staff to run.

2009 J. Glasby & R. Littlechild Direct Payments & Personal Budgets ii. 13 In 1986, the Social Security Act announced measures to replace Supplementary Benefit with Income Support.

supplementary triangle n. Mathematics either of two spherical triangles in which the points of the one are the poles of the sides of the other, and each side of the one is the supplement of the corresponding angle of the other.An earlier term was supplemental triangle n. at supplemental adj. and n. Compounds.

ΚΠ

1776 G. Douglas Elements Euclid 159 The arches that are the measures of the angles of the supplementary triangle, are the supplements of the sides of the given triangle.

1826 F. R. Hassler Elements Analytic Trigonom. iii. i. 107 Generally, the sides and angles of the supplementary triangle are the supplements of the angles and sides of the original triangle.

1906 C. L. Crandall Text-bk. Geodesy (1907) iii. 91 For primary work these values apply to the main scheme, while for secondary and tertiary they apply to the supplementary triangles as well.

2007 C. Barbieri Fund. Astron. i. 15 (note) It will be easy to reason on the supplementary triangle CAB.

Derivatives

ˌsuppleˈmentarily adv. by way of supplement, as or in a supplement.

ΚΠ

1715 Rep. Court of Chancery Charles I to James II (ed. 2) II. 380 By the true Construction of the Will the real Estate is subjected only supplementarily.

1828 Times 13 Feb. 1/5 The original bill was amended, and re-amended, and supplementarily amended, and re-amended, and again supplementarily amended.

1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 205 To indicate, supplementarily, the object denied.

1899 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 677 Those we propose to tax supplementarily are mostly wealthy.

1967 S. Krislov Negro in Federal Employment iii. 51 Additionally—perhaps more accurately, supplementarily—such a social distribution eases the problem of securing compliance.

2007 Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. Other people who never attain this optimum level in their normal diet can benefit from taking creatine supplementarily.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	supplementary
释义	supplementaryadj.n. Brit. /ˌsʌplᵻˈmɛnt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌsəpləˈmɛn(t)əri/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: supplement n.¹, -ary suffix¹. Etymology: < supplement n.¹ + -ary suffix¹. Compare French supplémentaire (1790). Compare earlier supplemental adj. A. adj. 1. Of the nature of, forming, or serving as a supplement. With to. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adjective] > making complete > by supplying what is wanting supplemental1605 supplianta1616 suppletorya1631 suppletive1633 expletive1652 eking1653 supplementary1667 makeweight1701 suppl.1800 supplementing1851 make-up1885 add-on1955 1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety xviii. 399 Divinity would not then pass the Yard and Loom,..nor Preaching be taken in as an easier supplementary Trade, by those that disliked the pains of their own. 1713 Ld. Shaftesbury Notion Hist. Draught Judgm. Hercules vi. 41 We shou'd take care not to afford it this occasion of Error and Deviation, by introducing into a Piece of so uniform a Design, such Appendices, or supplementary Parts. 1770 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) IV. Ded. p. iv To you therefore I address this little supplementary work. 1793 T. Beddoes Let. to E. Darwin 9 These I shall from time to time submit..as supplementary to the knowledge accumulated by former experience. 1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. Mar. 272/2 Competence to age is supplementary youth. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 287 To this Claim..was added a supplementary paper containing a list of grievances. 1855 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Feb. 154/2 ‘Allow me,’ said I, after a little thought, ‘to ask you a supplementary question or two’. a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1864) II. vi. 437 Each is supplementary to the other; so that in order to understand either, it is necessary to study both. 1908 Athenæum 15 Aug. 182/2 A supplementary volume of whose memoirs was published a few years ago. 1937 National Math. Mag. 12 80 Prof. Gino Loria, Genoa: Supplementary remarks on his plenary lecture. 1985 J. Laffin War of Desperation 205 Palestinian forces fall into four categories: (a) the regular Palestine Liberation Army—PLA; (b) quasi-regular units of the various organisations; (c) militias, supplementary to the various quasi-regular units; and (d) terror squads. 2008 A. M. Körner Guide to Publishing Sci. Paper (new ed.) xiv. 82 Some editors and reviewers now suggest that authors should remove certain results from their papers and publish them on the internet as Supplementary Information. 2. In various technical uses, in sense A. 1. a. Law, Parliament, and Finance. (a) Of acts, estimates, etc. ΘΚΠ society > law > [adjective] > various epithets applied to laws vagabondc1485 strait1503 strict1578 unrelaxable1615 sanguinary1625 standard1660 formal1701 supplementary1714 eludible1735 organic1831 antinomic1849 loopy1856 antinomical1877 contravenable1880 violable1885 nexal1886 entrenched1920 hard1935 1714 Laws Province Pennsilvania 168 A Supplementary Act to an Act entituled, An Impost Act. 1773 J. Montgomery et al. Honourable John Douglas, & Guardians,—Appellants. Sholto Charles Earl of Morton,—Respondent. Respondent's Case 4 If it could be considered in any other light than as a supplementary Deed, in case of falling short. 1826 G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scotl. (ed. 5) II. 214 Of Supplementary Deeds or Acts.—These are certain acts and steps of conveyancing necessary for supplying the links of a defective conveyance. 1826 G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scotl. (ed. 5) II. 409 Of the method of affecting the acquisitions of the bankrupt subsequent to sequestration... The best method..is, that the trustee..shall apply to the Court for a supplementary sequestration. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. (at cited word) When all the parties interested have not been called, or where the original summons requires amendment, and the defender has not appeared, a supplementary or auxiliary summons is necessary. 1841 Hansard Commons 5 Mar. 1361 He had..felt it his duty late in the year, to bring forward a supplementary estimate of 22,000l, to carry into effect the recommendation of the naval and military commission, which increased the estimates for the whole year to 6,185,000l. 1920 W. S. Churchill Let. 3 Mar. in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1969) II. Compan. ii. xiii. 985 The House is now discussing peacefully the supplementary Estimates of the Navy. 1977 J. Morgan in R. Crossman Diaries III. 124 The House of Commons must annually debate and pass three Consolidated Fund Bills, authorizing the issue of the supply of funds to cover the civil and defence estimates and supplementary estimates. 1994 T. Byrne Local Govt. in Brit. (ed. 6) p. xviii (Gloss.) Supplementary rate (or precept) , an extra levy, in addition to the regular, annual local tax. 2006 Hill Times (Canada) 8 May 15/4 Supplementary estimates..are the means by which a government reallocates resources during the year to reflect new priorities. (b) Esp. of state welfare payments. See also supplementary benefit n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [adjective] > types of state allowance supplementary1864 National Assistance1948 social securitya1974 1864 Rep. Commissioner of Pensions 1 Nov. in Message President U.S. to Congr. 516 The supplementary pension act of July 4, 1864. 1875 C. Bancroft Footpr. of Time 342 The supplementary Pension Act, approved June six, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, provides increased rates of pensions over those granted by the Act of July fourteen. 1911 Times 4 May 7/3 It was originally proposed that employers, employed, and the State should contribute to the insurance in equal parts, and that each should pay one-third; but this was strongly opposed and eventually abandoned for the plan of a supplementary allowance as the contribution of the State. 1920 A. Gleason What Workers Want iii. i. 385 A complete and comprehensive scheme of unemployment provision extending to all workers on a non-contributory basis should be instituted at the earliest possible moment... There should be, in addition to the flat rate, a supplementary allowance for dependent children. 1940 Economist 27 Jan. 141/2 The direct cost involved in the change over to a new central organisation for the payment of supplementary pensions is..nil. 1966 Whitaker's Almanack 1109/1 The supplementary pension may be claimed by persons over pension age and the supplementary allowance by persons aged 16 or over but under pension age, who are not in full-time work. 1993 M. F. Davis Brutal Need vii. 87 The hotel had returned a supplementary welfare check issued to Kelly to pay for a winter coat. 2009 D. Hummelsheim in H.-J. Andress & D. Hummelsheim When Marriage Ends ii. ii. 64 Social assistance [in Germany] consists of a standard rate, accommodation rate, heating costs, supplementary assistance for certain groups (for example, single parents) and health insurance. b. Military (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [adjective] > auxiliary auxiliary1603 supplementary?1793 ?1793 (title) The Supplementary militia. 1796 Act 37 Geo. III c. 3 §2 If a sufficient Number of Officers..cannot be found to accept of Commissions in the Supplementary Militia..it shall be lawful for the said Lieutenants..to appoint for that Service, such a Number of the Officers in the Army..as his Majesty shall approve. 1797 Act 38 Geo. III c. 17 §10 in Statutes at Large XLI. 586 If any person of the said supplementary militia..(not labouring under any infirmity incapacitating him to serve as a supplementary militia man), shall not appear and march in pursuance of such order, every such militia man shall be liable to be apprehended and punished as a deserter. 1874 United Service Mag. Apr. 483 An Order was made for all the Supplementary Militiamen for the several Wapentakes of the West Riding, to assemble at their respective divisions on the 5th March following. 1891 P. A. Ashworth tr. R. Gneist Hist. Eng. Constit. (new ed.) vi. xlvi. 632 In the later statutes, the strength was fixed at 120,000 men, and in like manner, the number of supplementary militia was limited. 2006 C. J. Fedorak in M. Philp Resisting Napoleon v. 96 Of this force, 50000 were to be raised in the first instance as the old militia, and then 20000 as a new, or supplementary, militia. c. Mathematics. Of an angle or arc: constituting the supplement of a given angle or arc; (of two angles or arcs) supplements of each other; adding to two right angles (180 degrees).An earlier term was supplemental adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [adjective] > other sidelong1654 semirect1656 subtended1759 supplementary1809 explementary1830 reflectional1848 reflex1869 multi-angled1908 1809 J. Leslie Elem. Geom. vi. 194 For the supplementary angles at the base must be together equal..and consequently they are equal to each other. 1871 J. R. Morell Ess. Geom. 90 If two adjacent dihedral angles are not equal, the greater is styled obtuse, and the less acute, and they are supplementary. 1926 M. Lowry Let. 6 May in Sursum Corda! (1995) I. 22 If a quadrilateral is described about a circle, the angles subtended at the center by any two opposite sides are supplementary. 1966 Current Anthropol. 7 238/1 Subtract this value of ‘gamma’ from 180° to get the value of the supplementary angle dca. 2007 R. N. Aufmann et al. Algebra (ed. 4) iii. 208 Adjacent angles of intersecting lines are supplementary angles. B. n. 1. A person or thing supplementary to another. ΚΠ 1798 Standing Orders for Yeomanry Corps Ireland 4 They will enquire in what manner the arms of the Corps, and particularly of the Supplementaries, are disposed of. 1812 R. Southey in Edinb. Ann. Reg. 1810 3 i. 485/2 Supplementary deputies were then to be chosen, who were to take their seats in case of any vacancy by death; the supplementaries were, as nearly as could be, in the proportion of one to three. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 304 The prayers..are simply preliminaries and supplementaries to the sermon. 1902 A. Terton Lights & Shadows in Hosp. i. 3 I was called a ‘supplementary’, which was a dignified title for a charwoman. 1957 K. G. Davies Royal Afr. Co. ii. ii. 60 African products, mainly gold and ivory, were valuable supplementaries to the negro trade, and sugar. 1963 M. P. Fogarty in J. L. Meij Internal Wage Struct. ii. 50 Table 18 shows in more detail the effect of supplementary and substitute payments on certain operatives' earnings. For engineering labourers and craftsmen supplementaries accounted for 27½%. 1988 Parl. Affairs 41 365 Supplementary Estimates..are published at the same time each year. Summer Supplementaries appear in June. 2005 M. Krishnaraj in C. Risseeuw et al. Care, Culture & Citizenship ii. 59 This supplementary benefit was independent of the partner's income. On termination of the supplementary he or she could get entitlement to social assistance if he or she was 50. 2. Parliament. A question supplementary to that put down on the question paper. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > [noun] > act or instance of > additional supplementary1901 1901 Times 19 Feb. 6/3 On Friday, the 30th, five questions were put, and no supplementaries. 1902 Hansard's Parl. Deb. 4th Ser. 117 231 If the sixty or sixty-five Questions with their supplementaries were not sufficient to satisfy the curiosity of the House, answers in writing would afterwards be circulated to the other Questions. 1941 H. E. Dale in M. Young Rise of Meritocracy (1994) 128 The perfect reply to an embarrassing question in the House of Commons is one that is brief,..gives no opening for awkward ‘supplementaries’, and discloses really nothing. 2005 M. Rush Parl. Today ix. 213 Other Members may also ask supplementaries, but the Speaker will not allow a debate to develop. Compounds supplementary air n. Physiology (now rare) = expiratory reserve volume n. at expiratory adj. Additions. ΚΠ 1843 J. Jeffreys Views Statics Human Chest i. 4 Then we have, on the top of this, the large bulk, which we can expel after an ordinary out-breathing; this may be named the supplementary air, it being the quantity filling the chest below the region of respiration. 1908 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 3 Dec. 762/1 This is the reserve or supplementary air of Hutchinson. 1963 B. Christiansen Thus Speaks Body ii. 53 We should expect..an expulsive character to show little supplementary air. supplementary benefit n. spec. (in the United Kingdom) a form of welfare payment which replaced National Assistance in 1966 and was superseded by income support in 1988. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > state allowance > other state benefits maternity benefit1911 universal basic income1935 constant attendance allowance1945 death grant1946 National Assistance1948 negative income tax1950 assistance1956 supplementary benefit1966 attendance allowance1969 income support1969 mobility allowance1974 UBI1993 1966 Hansard Commons 7 Mar. 1730/2 Will the right hon. Lady confirm whether supplementary benefits will now be the subject of Parliamentary Questions to her? 1977 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 70 602/1 That there are five million people in receipt of supplementary benefit is as much a sign of affluence as poverty for of households receiving benefit 96% have television, 68% washing machines, 62% a refrigerator and 23% a car. 1985 Daily Tel. 4 June 6/6 Income support is the name of the new benefit which will replace Supplementary benefit, criticised by the Green Paper as too difficult for claimants to understand and too complex for staff to run. 2009 J. Glasby & R. Littlechild Direct Payments & Personal Budgets ii. 13 In 1986, the Social Security Act announced measures to replace Supplementary Benefit with Income Support. supplementary triangle n. Mathematics either of two spherical triangles in which the points of the one are the poles of the sides of the other, and each side of the one is the supplement of the corresponding angle of the other.An earlier term was supplemental triangle n. at supplemental adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1776 G. Douglas Elements Euclid 159 The arches that are the measures of the angles of the supplementary triangle, are the supplements of the sides of the given triangle. 1826 F. R. Hassler Elements Analytic Trigonom. iii. i. 107 Generally, the sides and angles of the supplementary triangle are the supplements of the angles and sides of the original triangle. 1906 C. L. Crandall Text-bk. Geodesy (1907) iii. 91 For primary work these values apply to the main scheme, while for secondary and tertiary they apply to the supplementary triangles as well. 2007 C. Barbieri Fund. Astron. i. 15 (note) It will be easy to reason on the supplementary triangle CAB. Derivatives ˌsuppleˈmentarily adv. by way of supplement, as or in a supplement. ΚΠ 1715 Rep. Court of Chancery Charles I to James II (ed. 2) II. 380 By the true Construction of the Will the real Estate is subjected only supplementarily. 1828 Times 13 Feb. 1/5 The original bill was amended, and re-amended, and supplementarily amended, and re-amended, and again supplementarily amended. 1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 205 To indicate, supplementarily, the object denied. 1899 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 677 Those we propose to tax supplementarily are mostly wealthy. 1967 S. Krislov Negro in Federal Employment iii. 51 Additionally—perhaps more accurately, supplementarily—such a social distribution eases the problem of securing compliance. 2007 Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. Other people who never attain this optimum level in their normal diet can benefit from taking creatine supplementarily. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1667
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