[f. SUPPLEMENT v. + -ATION.] The action of supplementing; also, an instance of this, a supplementary addition.
1854. Ferrier, Inst. Metaph., 450. To redeem from contradiction a centreless circle or a stick with only one end, two supplementations are required.
1873. A. W. Ward, trans. Curtius’ Hist. Greece, I. II. i. 218. The war had made great gaps in the military body itself, and it was in the interest of the state to fill these up…. This supplementation miscarried.
1903. G. E. Underhill, in Eng. Hist. Rev., Oct., 756. The shortest supplementation [of lines in a fragmentary papyrus] is always the most probable.
