adstruct

Verb

adstruct (third-person singular simple present adstructs, present participle adstructing, simple past and past participle adstructed)

1. To build on to an existing structure.
   • Since my little house will no longer accomodate my growing family, I plan to adstruct it by means of an addition.
2. To augment a grouping of things, to add material to a heap.
   • I haven't as much dirt in this pile as I would like; I think that I shall adstruct it by shovelling more dirt on top.
3. (argumentation or debate) To provide supportive evidence to the extent that the validity of a proposition is reinforced.
   • ...though he not infrequently presents new and at first sight amazing combinations, Furnee always adduces phonetic and semantic evidence as well as historical considerations to adstruct those combinations which are not immediately evident.R.S.P. Beekes, A Review of Edzard J. Furnée's Die wichtigsten konsonantischen Erscheinungen des Vorgriechischen. Mit einem Appendix uber den Vokalismus, Part 1, Introduction