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AUGMENT (Lat. augere, to increase)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 902 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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AUGMENT (Lat. augere, to increase)

AUGMENT (See also:
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Lat. augere, to increase) , in See also:

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GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar the vowel prefixed to indicate the past tenses of a verb; in Greek grammar it is called syllabic, when only the a is pre-fixed; temporal, when it causes an initial vowel in the verb to become a diphthong or See also:

long vowel .

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