AUGMENTATION

AUGMENTATION, AUGMENTATIO, the act of augmenting; that is, of adding or joining something to another, to render it larger, or more considerable. See ADDITION, ACCESSION, ACCRETION, AMPLIFICATION, etc.

AUGMENTATION is also used for the augment; i.e. the thing added. See ADDITAMENT, ACCESSION, etc. Such a minister petitioned the king for an augmentation of salary, of wages, etc.



AUGMENTATION was also the name of a court erected under Henry VIII, to the end the king might be justly dealt with, touching the profit of such religious houses, and their lands, as were given him by act of parliament the same year.—This court was dissolved under Queen Mary, by the parliament held the first year of her reign; but the office of augmentation remains to this day. The court took its name hence, that the revenues of the crown were thought to be much augmented by the suppression of the said houses; many of which the king reserved to the crown.

AUGMENTATION