Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Supplying deficiencies; supplemental.
- An oath in supplement. See
supplement . - noun That which supplies what is wanted; a supplement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which is to supply what is wanted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
source ofsupply . - adjective Supplying deficiencies;
supplementary .
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Examples
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Take not offence at the lack of all such suppletory arts and stratagems in thy servant, said poor Wet-eyes.
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878
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Will you not, then, make it the beginning of some of the suppletory arts and stratagems of the spiritual life with yourselves?
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878
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Say that to-night as you look around on the grievous famine of the suppletory arts and stratagems of repentance and reformation in your heathenish bedroom.
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878
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'Our hearts are so deceitful in the matter of repentance, 'says Jeremy Taylor,' that the masters of the spiritual life are fain to invent suppletory arts and stratagems to secure the duty. '
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878
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SAVIOUR shall be applied to us, -- namely, obedience; and where obedience has failed, then, as suppletory to it, repentance.
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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But, consider, his hope of salvation must be founded on the terms on which it is promised that the mediation of our SAVIOUR shall be applied to us, ” namely, obedience; and where obedience has failed, then, as suppletory to it, repentance.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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