augmentative

& s. [In Fr. augmen tat if; Ital. augumentativo.] A. As adjective: Having the power of increasing any particular thing, or actually increasing it. "Some of them [terminations of verbal nouns) being augmentative, some diminutive."-Instructions for Oratory, p. 32. B. As substantive: A word which expre es in an augmented form-that is, with increased force the idea conveyed by the simple word from which it was derived. Thus the Indian term Maharajah (in Mahratta maha = great, rajah = king) is an augmentative of the simple word rajah . It is opposed to diminutive . To the latter category belongs the word kinglet ( king , and let = little). âug-měnt'-ěd, pa. par. [AUGMENT, V.] IMG:content-0895.png:[blocks in formation] applied to only for form's sake, and at last not at all. "Cesar. What say the augurs! Serrant . They would not have you stir forth to-day: Plucking the entrails of an offering forth. They could not find an heart within the beast." Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, 11. 2 "Oh! spare an augur's consecrated head." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, bk. xxii., 255. 2. Any person who attempts to read futurity, and predict events which have not yet oc curred. "Twas false thou know'st-but let such angurs rue, Their words are omens Insult renders true. Byron: The Corsair , III.