suppeditation

English

Etymology

From Latin suppeditatio.

Noun

suppeditation (usually uncountable, plural suppeditations)

1. (obsolete, rare) supply; aid afforded
   • 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 2XXII4

     I cannot sufficiently marvel that this part of knowledge […] should be omitted both in morality and policy; considering it is of so great ministry and suppeditation to them both.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “suppeditation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)