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AUGMENT', v.t. [L. augmento, augmentum, from augeo, auxi, to increase; Gr. It seems to be the Eng. to wax, or to eke.]

1. To increase; to enlarge in size or extent; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army, by reinforcement; rain augments a stream.

2. To increase or swell the degree, amount or magnitude; as, impatience augments an evil.

AUGMENT', v.i. To increase; to grow larger; as, a stream augments by rain.



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AUGMENT', v.t. [L. augmento, augmentum, from augeo, auxi, to increase; Gr. It seems to be the Eng. to wax, or to eke.]

1. To increase; to enlarge in size or extent; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army, by reinforcement; rain augments a stream.

2. To increase or swell the degree, amount or magnitude; as, impatience augments an evil.

AUGMENT', v.i. To increase; to grow larger; as, a stream augments by rain.


AUG'MENT, n.

  1. Increase; enlargement by addition; state of increase.
  2. In philology, a syllable prefixed to a word; or an increase of the quantity of the initial vowel.

AUG-MENT', v.i.

To increase; to grow larger; as, a stream augments by rain.


AUG-MENT', v.t. [Fr. augmenter; L. augmento, augmentum, from augeo, auxi, to increase; Gr. αυξω, αεξω, which seems to be the Eng. to wax, or to eke; Sax. eacan.]

  1. To increase; to enlarge in size or extent; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army, by reënforcement; rain augments a stream.
  2. To increase or swell the degree, amount, or magnitude; as, impatience augments an evil.

Aug*ment"
  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. To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
  3. Enlargement by addition; increase.
  4. To add an augment to.
  5. 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 (?), forming an intial syllable; the temporal augment is an increase of the quantity (time) of an initial vowel, as by changing (?) to (?).

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Augment

AUGMENT', verb transitive [Latin augmento, augmentum, from augeo, auxi, to increase; Gr. It seems to be the Eng. to wax, or to eke.]

1. To increase; to enlarge in size or extent; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army, by reinforcement; rain augments a stream.

2. To increase or swell the degree, amount or magnitude; as, impatience augments an evil.

AUGMENT', verb intransitive To increase; to grow larger; as, a stream augments by rain.

AUG'MENT, noun

1. Increase; enlargement by addition; state of increase.

2. In philology, a syllable prefixed to a word; or an increase of the quantity of the initial vowel.

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1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

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