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/ˌɑgmɛntˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Augmentation n.

The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.

The state of being augmented; enlargement.

The thing added by way of enlargement.

(Her.) A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor.

(Med.) The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.

(Mus.) In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length.

Augmentation court (Eng. Hist.), a court erected by Stat. 27 Hen. VIII., to augment the revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved.

Synonyms: Increase; enlargement; growth; extension; accession; addition.

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"Augmentation" Quotes from Famous Books

... burden. We soon learn, however, that it is not in this way that comfort ordinarily comes. It does not make the grief any less. It does not make our hearts any less sensitive to anguish. "Consolation implies rather an augmentation of the power of bearing than a diminution of the burden." In this case, it cannot lift off the loving father's heart the burden of disappointment and anguish which he experiences in seeing his son swept away in the currents of temptation. No possible comfort can do this. ...

— Making the Most of Life • J. R. Miller

... years. Okeghem was a very ingenious and laborious composer, who carried the art of canonic imitation to a much finer point than had been reached before his time. He is generally credited with having composed a motette in thirty-six parts having almost all the devices later known as augmentation, diminution, inversion, retrograde, crab, etc. The thirty-six parts here mentioned, however, were not fully written out. Only six parts were written, the remainder being developed from these on the principle of a round, the successive choruses ...

— A Popular History of the Art of Music - From the Earliest Times Until the Present • W. S. B. Mathews

... prosperous fortunes both work on Here, for the righteous man's salvation; Be he oppos'd, or be he not withstood, All serve to th' augmentation ...

— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick

... three in breadth; a space containing at least a hundred square English miles. He has raised his rents, to the danger of depopulating his farms, and he fells his timber, and by exerting every art of augmentation, has obtained an yearly revenue of four hundred pounds, which for a hundred square miles is three ...

— A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland • Samuel Johnson

... Legislatures and their own delegates in Congress. A convention of delegates from the State Legislatures, independent of the Congress itself, was the expedient which presented itself for effecting the purpose, and an augmentation of the powers of Congress for the regulation of commerce, as the object for which this assembly was to be convened. In January, 1785, the proposal was made and adopted in the Legislature of Virginia, and communicated to ...

— Orations • John Quincy Adams

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