supplementern.

1644 D. Featley Roma Ruens 12 The author and supplementer of Catologus testium veritatis.

1727 M. Rothos Whip for Quack 89 I am quite wearied with our Supplementer's Nonsenses, Falsehoods, [etc.].

1758 Monthly Rev. June 528 Those severer Critics who have censured Mr. Cotton's Travesty, as making too free with the immortal Maro, may be a little more indulgent to the liberties our nameless burlesque Translator takes with his Supplementer.

1832 G. S. Faber Apostolicity Trinitarianism II. v. 87 Let us hear the attestation of the old supplementer to Tertullian's Tractate against Heretics.

1864 Sanitary Comm. U.S. Army p. v How shall it [sc. this rising tide of popular sympathy]..be left..to act..as a true helper and supplementer of what the Government may find it possible or convenient to do from its own resources?

1869 H. Bonar Life J. Milne xix. 409 Not one minister out of a thousand would have borne such supplementing, however needful, or would have so cordially thanked the supplementer.

1878 Lancet 16 Feb. 251/2 Mr. Wood appears to regard the ‘chinchona febrifuge’ with considerable favour as a supplementer of quinine.

1906 J. Orr Probl. Old Test. x. 344 So long as the Jehovist was regarded as a mere supplementer of the Elohist.

1921 J. H. Kolb Rural Primary Groups iv. 45 The social function shows itself to be a strong factor in the secondary sense for its characteristic is that of a supplementer to other purposes considered of initial importance.

1960 S. B. Saul Stud. Brit. Overseas Trade i. vi. 143 During the 80's and 90's Britain was the marginal supplementer of German needs.