(a.) Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato.
Thesaurus Entries
Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, accompanist, accompanyist, animist, animistic, atomistic, bandman, cosmotheistic, eclectic, empirical, eudaemonistic, existential, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, instrumentist, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, naturalistic, nominalist, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, rationalistic, realist, realistic, ripieno, scholastic, sensationalistic, symphonist, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic
