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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Augmentative

Aug·ment′a·tive (a̤g·mĕnt′ȧ·tĭv), a. [Cf. F. augmentatif.] Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation. — Aug·ment′a·tive·ly, adv.

Aug·ment′a·tive, n. (Gram.) 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. Gibbs.

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.