AUGMENTATION, in a general sense, is the act of adding or joining something to another with a design to render it large.
AUGMENTATION is also used for the additament or thing added.
AUGMENTATION was also the name of a court erected 27 Hen. VIII. so called from the augmentation of the revenues of the crown, by the suppression of religious houses; and the office still remains, wherein there are many curious records, tho' the court has been dissolved long since.