Augment
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. Increase;
enlargement by addition; state of increase.
2. In
philology, a syllable prefixed to a word; or an increase of the quantity of the initial vowel.
Augment
[Verb intransitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
To increase; to grow larger; as, a stream augments by rain.
Augment
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. To increase; to
enlarge in size or extent; to swell; to make
bigger; as, to augment an army, by
reinforcement; rain augments a stream.
2. To increase or swell the degree, amount or magnitude; as,
impatience augments an evil.
Augment
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
2. A vowel prefixed, or a
lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
Augment
[Verb intransitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
Augment
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. To
enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make
bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream;
impatience augments an evil.
2. To add an augment to.
1. The act of increasing, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or
dilatation.
2. The state of being increased or enlarged.
3. The thing added by which a thing is enlarged.
4. In music, a doubling the value of the notes of the subject of a
fugue or canon.
5. Augmentation Court, in England, a court erected by 27
Hen. VIII., to
augment the revenues of the crown, by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved.
6. In
heraldry, augmentation consists in additional charges to a coat-
armor, often as marks of honor, borne on the
escutcheon or a canton.
1. The act or process of
augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or
dilation; increase.
4. A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor.
5. The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.
6. In
counterpoint and
fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length.
A word which expresses with
augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as,
dullard, one very dull. Opposed to
diminutive.
One who, or that which, augments or increases anything.
