suppletory

[ suhp-li-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

1. supplying a deficiency.

suppletory

/ -trɪ; ˈsʌplɪtərɪ /

adjective

1. archaic.
   remedying deficiencies; supplementary

Derived Forms

• ˈsuppletorily, adverb

Other Words From

• supple·tori·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of suppletory¹

1620–30; < Late Latin supplētōrius, equivalent to supplē ( re ) ( suppletion ) + -tōrius -tory ¹

Example Sentences

Adj. added &c. v.; additional; supplemental, supplementary; suppletory†, subjunctive; adjectitious†, adscititious†, ascititious†; additive, extra, accessory.

From Project Gutenberg

Take not offence at the lack of all such suppletory arts and stratagems in thy servant, said poor Wet-eyes. 

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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.’

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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.

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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? 

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