ADDITAMENT

Etymology

Noun

additament (plural additaments)

(archaic) An addition; something added. [from 14th c.]

And there are you perverting Nature in lying landscapes, filched from old rusty Titians, such as I can scrape up here to send you, with an additament from Shropshire nature thrown in to make the whole look unnatural.

Source: Wiktionary


Ad*dit"a*ment, n. Etym: [L. additamentum, fr. additus, p. p. of addere to add.]

Definition: An addition, or a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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