suppeditate 
in store, be present, < sub, under, + pctcrc, seek : 
see petition.] To supply; furnish. 
Whoever la able to suppeditate all things to the sufficing 
[of J all must have an intinite power. 
Bp. Pearson, Expos, of Creed, i. 
suppeditationt (su-ped-i-ta'shon), n. [< L. sup- 
peaitatio(n-), < suppeditare, supply: see sup- 
peditate.] Supply; aid afforded. 
So great ministry and suppeditation to them both. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 
supper (sup'er), . [< ME. souper, soper, super, 
< OF. souper, soper, super, F. souper, a supper, 
inf. used as a noun, < soper, P. souper, sup: see 
sup.] The evening meal ; the last repast of the 
day; specifically, a meal taken after dinner, 
whether dinner is served comparatively early 
or in the evening; in the Bible, the principal 
meal of the day a late dinner (the later Ko- 
man cena, Greek delmxm). 
Anon vpon ther soper was redy, 
She seruyd hym, in like wyse as hym ought. 
Oenerydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 141. 
I have drunk too much sack at supper. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 3. 15. 
Last Supper, the last meal eaten by Christ with his dis- 
ciples before his death, at which he instituted the Lord's 
Supper. 
Ffyrst in the sayd Cirche of Mownte Syon, In the self 
place wher the hyeh anter ys, ower blyssyd Savior Crist 
Jhu made hys last soper and mawdy wt his Uiscipnlis. 
Torlrington, Diarie of Eng. Travel!, p. 37. 
Lord's Supper. See Lord. Paschal supper, the Pass- 
over supper. See Passover. 
supper (sup'er), v. [< supper, n.] I.t intrans. 
To take supper; sup. 
This night we cut down all our corn, and many persons 
suppered here. Iteelce, Diary, Aug. 27, 1691. (Dames.) 
II. trans. To give supper to. [Bare.] 
Kester was suppering the horses, and in the clamp of 
their feet on the round stable pavement he did not hear 
her at first. Mrs. Gwkett, Sylvia's Lovers, vi. 
supper-board (sup'er-bord), n. The table on 
which supper is spread. 
Turned to their cleanly supper-board. 
Wordsworth, Michael. 
suppering (sup'er-ing), n. [Verbal n. of sup- 
per, v.] The act of taking supper ; supper. 
[Bare.] 
The breakfasting-time, the preparations for dinner, . . . 
and the supperings will fill up a great part of the day in a 
very necessary manner. 
Richardson, Pamela, II. 62. (Daviei.) 
supperless (sup'er-les), a. [< supper + -less.] 
Wanting supper; being without supper. 
Swearing and supperless the hero sate. 
Pope, Dunciad, i. 115. 
supper-time (sup'er-tlm), n. The time when 
supper is taken; evening. Shak., Othello, iv. 
. t . ' . 
supplant (su-planf), v. t. [< ME. svpplanten, 
< OF. (and F. ) supplanter = Sp. suplantar = Pg. 
supplatitar = It. supplantare, soppiantare, < L. 
supplantare, subplantare, trip up one's heels, 
overthrow, < sub, under, + planta, sole of the 
foot: see plant*.} If. To trip up, as the heels. 
His legs entwining 
Each other, till supplanted down he fell. 
Milton, P. L., i. 513. 
2f. To overthrow; cause the downfall of; de- 
stroy; uproot. 
I that have . . . scorn'd 
The cruel means you practised to supplant me 
Massinyer, Kenegado, iv. 2. 
Oh Christ, ouerthrowe the Tables of these Money-chang- 
ers, and with some whip driue them, scourge them out of 
thy Temple, which supplant thy plantations, and hinder 
the gayning of Soules for gaine. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 133. 
3f. To remove; displace; drive or force away. 
I will supplant some of your teeth. 
Shale., Tempest, iii. 2. 56. 
This, in ten daies more, would haue supplanted vs all 
with death. Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 3. 
4. To displace and take the place of, especially 
(of persons) by scheming or strategy. 
He gave you welcome hither, and you practise 
Unworthily to supplant him. 
Shirley, Love in a Maze, ii. 3. 
Observe but how their own Principles combat one an- 
other, and supplant each one his fellow. 
Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. 
I lamented . . . that frugality was supplanted by intem- 
perance, that order was succeeded by confusion. 
Landor, Imag. Conv., Peter the Great and Alexis. 
supplantaryt (su-plan'ta-ri), n. The act of sup- 
planting. 
Whiche is conceyvid of envye, 
And clepid is subplantarye. 
Cower, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134, f. 76. (Balliwell.) 
SUpplantation (sup-lan-ta'shon), n. [= F. sup- 
plantation = Sp. suplantacion = Pg. supplanta- 
6072 
ySo = It. supplanta:ione, < LL. supplantatio(n-), 
supplanting, hypocritical deceit, < L. supplan- 
tare, supplant : see supplant.'] The act of sup- 
planting. 
This general desire of aggrandizing themselves ... be- 
trays men to a thousand ridiculous and mischievous acts 
of supplantation and detraction. 
Johnson, Rambler, No. 9. 
supplanter (su-plan'ter), n. [< supplant + -er 1 .] 
One who supplants or displaces. South, Ser- 
mons, VI. iii. 
supple (sup'l), . [Also dial, souple (pron. 
soup'l and so'pl) ; < ME. souple, < OF. souple, 
soupple, F. souple, pliant, flexible, easily bent, 
supple, = It. supplicc, humble, suppliant, < L. 
supplex, subplex (-plic-), humble, suppliant ; not 
found in the lit. sense 'bending under,' 'bend- 
ing down'; < sub, under, + plicare, bend, fold: 
see plicate, plait. Cf. supplicate.'] 1. Pliant; 
flexible ; easily bent : as, supple joints ; supple 
fingers. 
I do beseech you 
That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly. 
Shak., Tempest, iii. 3. 107. 
Will ye submit your necks, and choose to bend 
The supple knee? Milton, P. L., v. 788. 
2. Yielding; compliant; not obstinate. 
A feloun firstc though that he be, 
Aftir thou shall hym souple se. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 3376. 
If it [beating] . . . makes not the will supple, it hardens 
the offender. Locke, Education, 78. 
3. Capable of adapting one's self to the wishes 
and opinions of others ; bending to the humor 
of others; obsequious; fawning; also, charac- 
terized by such obsequiousness, as words and 
acts. 
Having been supple and courteous to the people. 
Shak, Cor., ii. 2. 29. 
Call me not dear, 
Nor think with supple words to smooth the grossness 
Of my abuses. Ford, 'Tis Pity, ii. 2. 
He [Cranmer] was merely a supple, timid, interested 
courtier in times of frequent and violent change. 
Macaulay, Hallam's Const. Hist. 
4f. Tending to make pliant or pliable ; sooth- 
ing. 
But his defiance and his dare to warre 
We swallow with the supple oile of peace. 
Heywood, 2 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, I. 96). 
= Syn. 1. Lithe, limber, lissome. 
supple (sup'l), v.; pret. and pp. suppled, ppr. 
suppling. [< ME. souplen; < supple, a.] I. trans. 
1 . To make supple ; make pliant ; render flexi- 
ble : as, to supple leather. 
The Grecians were noted for light, the Parthians for 
fearful, the Sodomites for gluttons, like as England (God 
save the sample !) hath now suppled, lithed, and stretched 
their throats. Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 368. 
Black bull-hides, 
Seethed in fat and suppled in flame. 
Browning, Paracelsus. 
2. To make compliant, submissive, humble, or 
yielding. 
He that pride hath hym withynne 
Ne may his herte in no wise 
Meken ne souplen to servyse. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 2244. 
She 's hard of soul, but I must supple her. 
Shirley, Love in a Maze, ii. 2. 
To set free, to supple, and to train the faculties in such 
wise as shall make them most effective for whatever task 
life may afterwards set them. 
Lowell, Oration, Harvard, Nov. 8, 1886. 
3. Specifically, to train (a saddle-horse) by 
making him yield with docility to the rein, 
bending his neck to left or right at the slight- 
est pressure. 4t. To soothe. 
All the faith and religion that shall be there canoniz'd 
is not sufficient, without plain convincement and the 
charity of patient instruction, ia supple the least bruise of 
conscience. Milto7t, Areopagitica, p. 55. 
II. intrans. To become soft and pliant. 
Only his hands and feet, so large and callous, 
Require more time to supple. 
T. Tomkis (?), Albumazar, iii. 2. 
supple-chappedt (sup'l-chopt), a. Having a 
supple jaw ; having an oily tongue. 
A supple-chapped flatterer. Marston. 
supple-jack (sup'1-jak), n. 1. A strong, pliant 
cane. 
Take, take my supple-jack, 
Play St. Bartholomew with many a back, 
Flay half the academic imps alive. 
Wolcot (Peter Pindar), Lyric Odes for 1785, i. 
2. One of various climbing shrubs with strong 
lithe stems, some of them furnishing walking- 
sticks. The name applies primarily to several West In- 
dian and tropical American species, as Paullinia curassa- 
mca, P. sphnrocarpa, P. Barbadense, Serjania poli/phytta 
(see basket-wood) and some other species of Serjania, and 
to the allied Cardiospermum grandiflorum. In the south- 
supplementation 
ern United States Berchemia volubilis, a high twiner of 
the Rhamnaceap, is so called. The native supple-jack of 
Australia consists of varieties of the woody climber Clema- 
tis arixtata; that of New Zealand is Rubus australis, per- 
haps the largest known bramble, climbing over the lofti- 
est trees, also called New Zealand lawyer. 
supplelyt (sup'l-li), adv. Pliantly; with sup- 
pleness. Cotyrave, 
supplement (sup'le-ment), n. [< OF. supple- 
ment, F. supplement = Sp. suplemento = Pg. It. 
supplemental L. supplcmentum, that with which 
anything is made full or whole,< supplere, make 
good, complete, supply: see supply.] 1. An 
addition to anything, by which it is made more 
full and complete ; particularly, an addition to 
a book or paper. 
No man seweth a pacche of rude or newe clothe to an 
old clothe, ellis he takith awey the newe supplement or 
pacche, and a more brekynge is maad. 
Wyclif, Mark ii. 21. 
God, which hath done this immediately, without so 
much as a sickness, will also immediately, without supple- 
ment of friends, infuse his Spirit of comfort where it is 
needed and deserved. Donne, Letters, cxxiv. 
These public affections, combined with manners, are 
required sometimes as supplement*, sometimes as correc- 
tives, always as aids to law. Burke, Rev. in France. 
2f. Store ; supply. 
If you be a poet, and come into the ordinary, ... re- 
peat by heart either some verses of your own or of any 
other man's ; ... it may chance save you the price of 
your ordinary, and beget you other supplements. 
Dekker, Gull's Hornbook, p. 118. 
They cover not their faces unless it be with painting, 
using all the supplement of a sophisticate beauty. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 62. 
3. In trigon., the quantity by which an angle 
or an arc falls short of 180 or a semicircle. 
Hence, two angles which are together 
equal to two right angles, or two arcs 
which are together equal to a semi- 
circle, are the supplements of each 
other. Bill of revivor and sup- 
plement See remcor. Letters of 
supplement, in Scottlaw, letters oh- J^ ^ , 
mplement of the an- 
tained on a warrant from the Court 
of Session, where a party is to be gieBCA 
sued before an inferior court, and 
does not reside within its jurisdiction. In virtue of these 
letters the party may be cited to appear before the infe- 
rior judge. Oath in supplement, in Scots law, an oath 
allowed to be given by a party in his own favor, in order 
to turn the semiplena probatio, which consists in the tes- 
timony of but one witness, into the plena probatio, af- 
forded by the testimony of two witnesses. = Syn. 1. Ap- 
pendix, Supplement. An appendix contains additional 
matter, not essential to the completeness of the principal 
work, but related to it ; a supplement contains additional 
material, completing or improving the principal work, 
supplement (sup'le-ment), v. t. [= Sp. suple- 
mentar = Pg. supplementar ; from the noun.] 
To fill up or supply by additions ; add some- 
thing to, as to a writing, etc. ; make up deficien- 
cies in. 
The parliamentary grants were each year supplemented 
by ecclesiastical grants made in the Convocations of the 
two provinces. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 358. 
supplemental (sup-le-men'tal), a. [= Sp. suple- 
mental; as supplement + -at.] Of the nature 
of a supplement; serving to supplement; ad- 
ditional ; added to supply what is wanted sup- 
plemental air. See niri. Supplemental answer, 
Dill, or pleading, one interposed after the ordinary an- 
swer, bifl, or other pleading, in order to bring before the 
court facts which occurred since that was interposed, or 
facts which were omitted and not allowable subjects for 
amendment Supplemental arcs, in trigon., arcs of a 
circle or other curve which subtend angles at the center 
amounting together to 180. Supplemental chords, 
two chords of a conic joining one point to the two extremi- 
ties of a diameter. Supplemental cone, proceedings, 
triangle. See the nouns. Supplemental cusp, in 
odontog., a cusp, such as may form the heel of a molar, 
lower than and additional to the main cusp or cusps of a 
tooth. Supplemental versed sine, in trigon. See sineZ. 
supplementarily (sup-le-men'ta-ri-li), adv. In 
a supplementary manner. 
supplementary (sup-le-men'ta-ri), a. [= F. 
supplementaire = Sp. suplementario = Pg. sup- 
plementario; as supplement + -ary.] 1. Same 
as supplemental. 2. Especially, in anat. and 
goal., additional (to what is normal, ordinary, 
or usual) ; added, as something secondary, sub- 
sidiary, or useless; supernumerary; extra: as, 
a supplementary digit (a sixth finger or toe). 
Supplementary bladder, a sacculated diverticulum of 
the wall of the urinary bladder. Supplementary curve, 
an imaginary projection of a curve making an imaginary 
part real. Such projections are of aid in comprehending 
the theory of curves. Supplementary eye, in entom., 
an organ furnished with from 5 to 10 hemispherical lenses, 
apparently superimposed on the compound eye : a struc- 
ture found in the Aphididte or plant-lice. Also called 
tubercle. Supplementary proceedings. See proceed- 
ing. Supplementary respiration, score, etc. See 
the nouns. Supplementary spleen, a small body simi- 
lar to the spleen in structure and occasionally found in its 
neighborhood ; a splenculus or lienculus. 
Supplementation (sup"le-men-ta'shou), n. [< 
suprilemeitt + -ation.] 'fhe act of supplement- 
