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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. F.

augmentatif

Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation.

–

Aug-ment′a-tive-ly

adv.

Noun.

(Gram.)

A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived;

as,

dullard

, one very dull

. Opposed to

diminutive

Gibbs.

Adj.

Having the quality or power of augmenting.