additament

[ uh-dit-uh-muhnt ]

noun

1. something added; an addition.

Other Words From

• ad·dit·a·men·ta·ry [uh, -dit-, uh, -, men, -t, uh, -ree], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of additament¹

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin additāmentum, equivalent to addit ( us ) (past participle) added ( addition ) + -ā- (by analogy with verbal derivatives such as ornāmentum ornament ) + -mentum -ment

Example Sentences

On the alternative that the additament takes on another additament, you will be embarrassed by a many-sided regress in infinitum.

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We shall now have to add to the seed another supplementation by subsidiaries themselves requiring an additament.

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An Aqua regis may also be drawn from nitrous earths by the force of fire only, without the help of any additament.

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Corrosive Sublimate may also be made only by mixing Mercury with Sea-salt, without any additament.

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Milk left to itself, without the help of distillation, or any additament whatever, undergoes a sort of decomposition.

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