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supplement
n. 1 addendum, addition, appendix, epilogue, end-piece,
postscript, appendage, extension, continuation, adjunct, annexe,
appurtenance, accessory, codicil, insert, sequel;
supplementation; Technical suppletion: The later version
includes the 1909 supplement.
--v. 2 add (on or to), extend, augment; complement: Various
scholars supplemented the earlier work with their own notes and
comments. He supplements his income by working at a restaurant.
supplementary
adj. 1 additional, added, annexed, adjunct, new: The
supplementary buildings increased the size of the hospital
greatly. 2 supplemental, supportive, contributory, ancillary,
secondary, subordinate, annexed, additional, attached, added,
appended, subsidiary, adscititious; extraneous, adventitious,
supervenient, extra, excess; Technical suppletive: The
supplementary material expanded the original work five-fold.
supplicant
adj. 1 suppliant, supplicating, entreating, petitioning,
supplicatory, beseeching, praying, imploring, solicitous,
importunate, begging, mendicant: In 1897, he carved a
supplicant group in white marble, now in the Fraser Museum.
--n. 2 suppliant, applicant, petitioner, beseecher, suitor,
pleader, aspirant, appellant, plaintiff, beggar, mendicant: He
came to me as a supplicant, begging forgiveness for what he had
done.
supplication
n. 1 entreaty, petition, prayer, appeal, pleading, plea, suit,
solicitation, obsecration, obtestation, impetration: Heeding
the pitiful supplications of the beggars, they gave them some
money. 2 supplicating, begging, pleading, soliciting,
petitioning, entreating, beseeching: All his supplication could
not wring a farthing from the old skinflint.
supply v. 1 furnish, provide, give, endow, present, purvey, deliver,
come up with, contribute, distribute, sell; stock, accommodate,
afford, equip, outfit, gear (up), rig (out), fit (out),
provision, cater to, Chiefly Brit kit out or up; victual: Her