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supplementary, a. (n.)|sʌplɪˈmɛntərɪ|
[f. supplement n.1 + -ary1. Cf. F. supplémentaire.]
a. Of the nature of, forming, or serving as, a supplement. Const. to.
1667Decay Chr. Piety xviii. 399 Divinity would not then pass the Yard and Loom,..nor Preaching be taken in as an easier supplementary Trade, by those that disliked the pains of their own. 1770Pennant Brit. Zool. IV. Ded. p. iv, To you therefore I address this little supplementary work. 1793Beddoes Lett. Darwin 9 These I shall from time to time submit..as supplementary to the knowledge accumulated by former experience. 1823Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Old China, Competence to age is supplementary youth. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 287 To this Claim..was added a supplementary paper containing a list of grievances. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1864) II. vi. 437 Each is supplementary to the other; so that in order to understand either, it is necessary to study both. 1908Athenæum 15 Aug. 182/2 A supplementary volume of whose memoirs was published a few years ago.
b. In various technical uses.
Esp. of welfare payments. supplementary benefits replaced National Assistance in 1966, and were superseded by income support in 1988.
1796Act 37 Geo. III, c. 3 §2 If a sufficient Number of Officers..cannot be found to accept of Commissions in the Supplementary Militia..it shall be lawful for the said Lieutenants..to appoint for that Service, such a Number of the Officers in the Army..as his Majesty shall approve. 1826G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scot. (ed. 5) II. 214 Of Supplementary Deeds or Acts.—These are certain acts and steps of conveyancing necessary for supplying the links of a defective conveyance. Ibid. 409 Of the method of affecting the acquisitions of the bankrupt subsequent to sequestration... The best method..is, that the trustee..shall apply to the Court for a supplementary sequestration. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. s.v., When all the parties interested have not been called, or where the original summons requires amendment, and the defender has not appeared, a supplementary or auxiliary summons is necessary. 1841Hansard Commons 5 Mar. 1361 He had..felt it his duty late in the year, to bring forward a supplementary estimate of 22,000l, to carry into effect the recommendation of the naval and military commission, which increased the estimates for the whole year to 6,185,000l. 1842Penny Cycl. XXII. 343/2 The supplementary triangle. [Cf. supplemental b.] 1848Cayley Math. Papers I. 362 The supplementary cone (i.e. the cone generated by lines through the vertex at right angles to the tangent planes of the cone in question). 1855Dunglison Med. Lex. (1857) s.v. Respiration, The supplementary or reserve air or that which can be expelled by a forcible expiration, after an ordinary outbreathing. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2455/1 Supplementary Engine, an auxiliary steam-engine, for feeding the boiler when the main engine is at rest. 1891F. Taylor Man. Pract. Med. (ed. 2) 347 Increased vesicular murmur happens..over one lung or part of a lung, when another part of the lung is not properly in use. It is then called compensatory or supplementary breathing. 1920W. S. Churchill Let. 3 Mar. in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1969) II. Compan. ii. xiii. 985 The House is now discussing peacefully the supplementary Estimates of the Navy. 1940Economist 27 Jan. 141/2 The direct cost involved in the change over to a new central organisation for the payment of supplementary pensions is..nil. 1966Hansard Commons 7 Mar. 1730/2 Will the right hon. Lady confirm whether supplementary benefits will now be the subject of Parliamentary Questions to her? 1966Whitaker's Almanack 1967 1109/1 The supplementary pension may be claimed by persons over pension age and the supplementary allowance by persons aged 16 or over but under pension age, who are not in full-time work. 1973B. Mather Snowline vii. 85 He was getting nothing—unemployment pay, supplementary allowance—not a sausage. 1977in R. Crossman Diaries III. 124 The House of Commons must annually debate and pass three Consolidated Fund Bills, authorizing the issue of the supply of funds to cover the civil and defence estimates and supplementary estimates. 1977Proc. R. Soc. Med. LXX. 602/1 That there are five million people in receipt of supplementary benefit is as much a sign of affluence as poverty for of households receiving benefit 96% have television, 68% washing machines, 62% a refrigerator and 23% a car.
c. n. A supplementary person or thing.
In recent parliamentary use, a question supplementary to that put down on the question-paper.
1812Southey in Edinb. Ann. Reg. III. i. 485/2 Supplementary deputies were then to be chosen, who were to take their seats in case of any vacancy by death; the supplementaries were, as nearly as could be, in the proportion of one to three. 1879Scribner's Monthly Dec. 304 The prayers..are simply preliminaries and supplementaries to the sermon. 1902Alice Terton Lights & Shadows in Hosp. i. 3, I was called a ‘supplementary’, which was a dignified title for a charwoman. 1904Westm. Gaz. 16 May 1/2 Lord Cranborne..did not altogether ignore supplementaries, but he came one or two bad croppers over them.
Hence suppleˈmentarily adv., by way of supplement.
1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 205 To indicate, supplementarily, the object denied. 1899Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 677 Those we propose to tax supplementarily are mostly wealthy. |