additament
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- additamentary adjective
Etymology
Origin of additament
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
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My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age.
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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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For example, let a seed be granted to be productive when an additament is given, consisting of a complement of objects such as water, wind, and the like, as subsidiaries; otherwise an additament would be manifested without subsidiaries.
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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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In case an Additament be employed, what that is, and in what proportion it is added?
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