suppletionn.
/səˈpliːʃn/, U.S. /səˈpliʃən/ 1. The making good of a deficiency, provision of a supplement, supplementation; an instance of this.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [noun] > by supplying what is wanting
suppletiona1325
supplement1447
suppliancea1500
supply?a1513
supplying1570
supplementing1832
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xxxvi. 97 Warefore diuerse suppleciouns of lawe ant newe forlokinges bihouez.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. 12/2 The quinquagesme..is instituted for supplecion & fulfyllyng.
?c1500 Conversion of St. Paul (Digby) l. 359 The compyler here-of shuld translat veray so holy a story, but with fauorable correccyon of my fauorable masters of þer benygne supplexion.
1658 G. Wharton Calendarium Ecclesiasticum i. 12 Septuagesima is said to have been instituted for..Suppletion, that is, supplying, or making up of that which lacketh.
1705 tr. Euclid Elements Arithmetick ii. xii. 183 Write the lesser whole Number under the greater.., supplying the vacant places in the Indices..with Cypher signed, as is done in C and D; by which suppletion of the given Decimals A and B, the value is not changed by the Axiom in Chap. 2.
1765 J. Elphinston Princ. Eng. Lang. Digested II. v. 147 The familiar what it amounts to is—the person I aim at is—the thing he is proud of is—become precise only by resolution or suppletion: That to which it amounts is—the person at whom I aim is—the thing of which he is proud is.
1837 J. S. Frey Joseph & Benjamin (ed. 5) iv. 255 That natural inaptitude under which they labored, of bearing children in any manner;..which could be remedied only by a suppletion of those organs and powers on which fecundity depends.
1886 Andover Rev. Nov. 563 In the few cases in which it is still necessary to resort to conjecture, the context generally makes the suppletion unmistakably evident.
1905 Special Rep. Educ. Subj. (Board of Education) 13 157 They [sc. the School Regulations] will receive shortly whatever of revision and suppletion they still require.
1990 Brain 113 1363 The paraesthesiae could be reduced by oral potassium chloride suppletion.
2. Linguistics. The replacement of a form which is missing from a grammatical paradigm by one derived from a different stem.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > inflection > [noun] > paradigm > replacement of missing form in
suppletion1909
1909 Classical Rev. 23 19/1 ‘Suppletion’ for the process by which defective parts of a paradigm are made up by forms based on a different root.
1933 L. H. Gray in Language 9 84 Athematic verbs, as well as their semantic equivalents elsewhere, seem peculiarly liable to suppletion by other verbs to furnish their aorists.
1942 B. Bloch & G. L. Trager Outl. Ling. Anal. iv. 58 Suppletion may be regarded as an extreme kind of internal change, in which the entire base..is replaced by another form.
1973 B. L. Derwing Transformational Gram. as Theory of Lang. Acquisition ii. iv. 94 Whatever underlying form is chosen for a particular morpheme, it must be constant for all occurrences of the morpheme in question (except in relatively rare cases of ‘true suppletion’, where lexical complexity is unavoidable).
2010 S. J. Clancy Chain of Being & Having in Slavic ii. 23 Varying degrees of suppletion of be are found in the Indo-European languages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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