Additament

Definitions

An addition; something added.

archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“Whenever any menstruum or other additament is employed, together with the fire, to obtain⟳ a sulphur or a salt from a body, we may well take⟳ the freedom to examine⟳, whether or no the menstruum do barely help⟳ to separate⟳ the principle obtained by it...”

“Nature has furnish'd his foot with another additament much more curious and admirable, and that is, with a couple of Palms, Patterns or Soles […]”

“15 March⟳ 1806, Charles Lamb, letter to Mr. Hazlitt And there are you perverting Nature in lying landscapes, filched from old rusty Titians, such as I can scrape up here to send⟳ you, with an additament from Shropshire nature thrown in to make⟳ the whole look⟳ unnatural.”

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