a. (sb.) [f. SUPPLEMENT sb.1 + -ARY1. Cf. F. supplémentaire.] Of the nature of, forming, or serving as, a supplement. Const. to.
1667. Decay Chr. Piety, xviii. 399. Divinity would not then pass the Yard and Loom,… nor Preaching be taken in as an easier supplementary Trade, by those that disliked the pains of their own.
1770. Pennant, Brit. Zool., IV. Ded. p. iv. To you therefore I address this little supplementary work.
1793. Beddoes, Lett. Darwin, 9. These I shall from time to time submit … as supplementary to the knowledge accumulated by former experience.
1823. Lamb, Elia, Ser. II. Old China. Competence to age is supplementary youth.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xiii. III. 287. To this Claim … was added a supplementary paper containing a list of grievances.
a. 1862. Buckle, Civiliz. (1864), II. vi. 437. Each is supplementary to the other; so that in order to understand either, it is necessary to study both.
1908. Athenæum, 15 Aug., 182/2. Kilinski, a supplementary volume of whose memoirs was published a few years ago.
b. In various technical uses.
1796. Act 37 Geo. III., c. 3 § 2. If a sufficient Number of Officers … cannot be found to accept of Commissions in the Supplementary Militia … it shall be lawful for the said Lieutenants … to appoint for that Service, such a Number of the Officers in the Army … as his Majesty shall approve.
1826. G. J. Bell, Comm. Laws Scot. (ed. 5), II. 214. Of Supplementary Deeds or Acts.—These are certain acts and steps of conveyancing necessary for supplying the links of a defective conveyance. Ibid., 409. Of the method of affecting the acquisitions of the bankrupt subsequent to sequestration…. The best method … is, that the trustee … shall apply to the Court for a supplementary sequestration.
1838. W. Bell, Dict. Law Scot., s.v., When all the parties interested have not been called, or where the original summons requires amendment, and the defender has not appeared, a supplementary or auxiliary summons is necessary.
1842. Penny Cycl., XXII. 343/2. The supplementary triangle. [Cf. SUPPLEMENTAL b.]
1848. Cayley, Math. Papers, I. 362. The supplementary cone (i. e. the cone generated by lines through the vertex at right angles to the tangent planes of the cone in question).
1855. Dunglison, Med. Lex. (1857), s.v. Respiration, The supplementary or reserve air or that which can be expelled by a forcible expiration, after an ordinary outbreathing.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 2455/1. Supplementary Engine, an auxiliary steam-engine, for feeding the boiler when the main engine is at rest.
1891. F. Taylor, Man. Pract. Med. (ed. 2), 347. Increased vesicular murmur happens … over one lung or part of a lung, when another part of the lung is not properly in use. It is then called compensatory or supplementary breathing.
c. sb. A supplementary person or thing.
In recent parliamentary use, a question supplementary to that put down on the question-paper.
1812. Southey, in Edinb. Ann. Reg., III. I. 485/2. Supplementary deputies were then to be chosen, who were to take their seats in case of any vacancy by death; the supplementaries were, as nearly as could be, in the proportion of one to three.
1879. Scribner’s Monthly, XIX. Dec., 304/2. The prayers and the music are simply preliminaries and supplementaries to the sermon.
1902. Alice Terton, Lights & Shadows in Hosp., i. 3. I was called a ‘supplementary,’ which was a dignified title for a charwoman.
1904. Westm. Gaz., 16 May, 1/2. Lord Cranborne … did not altogether ignore supplementaries, but he came one or two bad croppers over them.
Hence Supplementarily adv., by way of supplement.
1862. F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 205. To indicate, supplementarily, the object denied.
1899. J. Bertillon Pop. Sci. Monthly, Sept., 677. Those we propose to tax supplementarily are mostly wealthy, whence the tax against them would be generally productive.
