also 6–7 additement, additiment. [ad. L. additāment-um f. addit-us pa. pple. of add-ĕre; see ADD.] Anything added or appended; an addition.
1460. Capgrave, Chron., 307. Thei have Seynt Austyn reule; with certeyn additamentis.
1577–87. Harrison, England, I. II. i. (1877), 37. Whereas now prebends are but superfluous additaments unto former excesses.
1600. Abp. Abbot, On Jonah, 593. Our great joy must be in the Lord; other things must be as appendices and additiments.
1622. Malynes, Anc. Law-Merchant, 55. One pound [of silk] of 16 ounces was by sophistications of additements augmented to 32 ounces.
1662. Fuller, Worthies (1840), III. 52. It is the most impure of metals, hardly meltable but with additaments.
1741. Compl. Fam.-Piece, I. i. 32. Let the Patient take it at Bed-time in the Pap of an Apple, or some other proper Additament.
1823. Lamb, Elia, I. xvii. (1865), 134. So many pretty additaments and ornaments to that main structure.
