suˈppletion
Also 4 supplecioun, 5 -plecion, supplexion.
[a. OF. sup(p)letion, supplection, ad. L. *supplētio, -ōnem, f. supplēre supply v.1]
† 1. Supplementation, supplement. Obs. rare.
| a 1325 MS. Rawl. B. 520 lf. 47 b, Ware fore diuerse suppleciouns of lawe ant newe forlokinges bihouez. 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. (1892) 33 The quinquagesme..is instituted for supplecion & fulfyllyng. c 1485 Digby Myst., Conversion of St. Paul 359 The compyler here-of shuld translat veray so holy a story, but with fauorable correccyon of my fauorable masters of þer benygne supplexion. |
2. Linguistics. The replacement of a form which is missing from a grammatical paradigm by one derived from a different root. Also attrib.
| 1933 L. H. Gray in Language IX. 84 Athematic verbs, as well as their semantic equivalents elsewhere, seem peculiarly liable to suppletion by other verbs to furnish their aorists. 1942 Bloch & Trager Outl. Linguistic Anal. iv. 58 Suppletion may be regarded as an extreme kind of internal change, in which the entire base..is replaced by another form. 1951 [see morpholexical a.]. 1959 F. W. Householder in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 21/1 It is always possible (with due allowance for irregularity and suppletion) to derive a related expression of structure B. 1978 Language LIV. 21 Cases of feminine suppletion like mon amie are not included. |