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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.

Capable of augmentation. Walsh.

The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.

Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation. -- Aug*ment"a*tive*ly, adv.

One who, or that which, augments or increases anything.

To diminish. [R.]

Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory. The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain. Gibbon.

n of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth. A mineral . . . augments not by grown, but by accretion. Owen. To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion. Sir G. C. Lewis.

To increase; to augment. And though power failed, her courage did accrue. Spenser.

unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add win…

Anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building.

The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation. [Obs.]

ly paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.

Augmentative; intensive. Ellicott.

That which is superadded; augmentation. [Obs.] Baxter.

[Collog.] -- Queen Anne's bounty (Eng. Hist.), a provision made in Queen Anne's reign for augmenting poor clerical livings.

ich it is not in our power to afford the proper and adequate remedy; they imply rather an augmentation of the power of bearing, than a diminution of the burden." Johnson.

To yield consent; to agree; to acquiesce. [Obs.] Augment or alter . . . And we'll consign thereto. Shak.

Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds. The argument . . . is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative. Trench.

eing desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess. [R.] The desirefulness of our minds much augmenteth and increaseth our pleasure. Udall.