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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Augment

Aug·ment′ (a̤g·mĕnt′), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Augmented; p. pr. & vb. n. Augmenting.] [L. augmentare, fr. augmentum an increase, fr. augere to increase; perh. akin to Gr. αὔξειν, αὐξάνειν, E. wax, v., and eke, v.: cf. F. augmenter.] 1. To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.

But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton.

2. (Gram.) To add an augment to.

Aug·ment′, v. i. To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.

Aug′ment (a̤g′mĕnt), n. [L. augmentum: cf. F. augment.] 1. Enlargement by addition; increase.

2. (Gram.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.

☞ In Greek, the syllabic augment is a prefixed ε, forming an intial syllable; the temporal augment is an increase of the quantity (time) of an initial vowel, as by changing ε to η.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.