supplementationn.

1849 C. A. Brandis in W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Biogr. & Mythol. III. 1293/1 We find a similar attempt at a supplementation of the Platonic doctrine in Xenocrates' assumption of indivisible lines.

1854 J. F. Ferrier Inst. Metaphysic 450 To redeem from contradiction a centreless circle or a stick with only one end, two supplementations are required.

1868 Lancet 21 Nov. 681/2 The scarcity of glass and its supplementation by lattices..rendered ventilation appliances unnecessary.

1873 A. W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. Greece I. ii. i. 218 The war had made great gaps in the military body itself, and it was in the interest of the state to fill these up... This supplementation miscarried.

1903 G. E. Underhill in Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. 756 The shortest supplementation [of lines in a fragmentary papyrus] is always the most probable.

1931 M. M. Bozman tr. P. Bekker R. Wagner v. i. 466 The supplementation of the open harmony of keynote and fifth by the complementary third.

1970 H. E. Huntley Divine Proportion vii. 93 The solution provides the element of surprise we have noted before, and, with its supplementation, it is neat and satisfying.

2007 Sci. Amer (U.K. ed.) Nov. 44/3 Toxic vitamin D overdose through supplementation is certainly possible, although it is generally seen when doses of 40,000 IU or more of D have been taken daily for an extended period.