additionary
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈdɪʃənəɹi/, /əˈdɪʃənɹi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈdɪʃənɛɹi/
- Hyphenation: ad‧dit‧ion‧a‧ry
Adjective[edit]
additionary (comparative more additionary, superlative most additionary)
- Synonym of additional
- a. 1634 (published 1652), George Herbert, “A Priest to the Temple, or The Countrey Parson His Character, and Rule of Holy Life”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of George Herbert. […] (The Fuller Worthies’ Library), volume III (Prose), London: […] [Robson and Sons] for private circulation, published 1874, →OCLC, chapter XXXI (The Parson in Liberty), page 193:
- The countrey parson […] stands fast in 'the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free' [Galatians v. 1]. This liberty he compasseth by one distinction, and that is of what is necessary and what is additionary.
Further reading[edit]
- “additionary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.