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.

in heraldry, are additional charges to a coat-armour, frequently given as particular marks of honour, and generally borne either in the escutcheon or a coronet; as have all the baronets of England, who have borne the arms of the Province of Ulster in Ireland.