AUGMENTA'TION, n. 1. The act of increasing, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilatation.2. The state of being increased or enlarged.3. The thing added by which a thing is enlarged.4. In music, a doubling the value of the notes of the subject of a fugue or canon.Augmentation Court, in England, a court erected by 27 Hen. VIII., to augment the revenues of the crown, by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved.In heraldry, augmentation consists in additional charges to a coat-armor, often as marks of honor, borne on the escutcheon or a canton. |
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