(First in Sc. writers.) [f. SUPPLEMENT sb.1] trans. To furnish a supplement to, supply the deficiency in; also, to supply (a deficiency).
In recent story-writing, to add as a supplementary statement or remark.
1829. Jas. Mill, Hum. Mind (1869), II. 62. Clusters of sensations, supplemented by possibilities of sensation.
1833. Chalmers, Power of God, I. vi. (1834), I. 224. The strong appetite of hunger supplements the deficiency of the rational principle of self-preservation.
1857. J. W. Donaldson, Chr. Orthod., Introd. p. viii. This work is a continuous essay, supplemented by a number of special disquisitions on certain important subjects.
1863. Gladstone, Financ. Statem., 442. The spiritual food is to be supplemented, as Scotchmen say, by something which finds a shorter way to their perceptions and their appetites.
1868. G. Duff, Pol. Surv., 23. The two sets of dissimilar conditions supplement and throw light upon each other.
1875. Rossetti, Hood’s Poet. Wks., Ser. II. Pref. p. xv. It is now thought desirable to supplement that by a second volume.
1878. Miss Braddon, Open Verdict, i. If I am a poor creature as a parson, you supplement me so well, Selina, that, between us, I think we do our duty to the parish.
1888. ‘J. S. Winter,’ Bootle’s Childr., xi. ‘Yes, a disparity,’ answered Maud…. ‘It means age!’ ‘And not less than twenty years,’ supplemented Pearl.
Hence Supplemented ppl. a., Supplementing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1865. W. Kay, Crisis Hupfeldiana, 80. Their cancellings, supplementings, and arbitrary assumptions.
1901. Westm. Gaz., 30 Nov., 2/1. ‘You love the garden?’ she hazarded…. ‘And everything in it,’ was his supplemented answer.
1904. R. Small, Hist. Congreg. U. P. Ch., I. 529. A winding-up was insisted on by the Supplementing Board.
