Ancillary

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ancillary \An"cil*la*ry\, a. [L. ancillaris, fr. ancilla a
     female servant.]
     Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.
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           The Convocation of York seems to have been always


           considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the
           greater province.                        --Hallam.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ancillary
       adj : relating to something that is added but is not essential;
             "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms
             of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to
             each other" [syn: {accessory}, {adjunct}, {adjuvant}, {appurtenant},
              {auxiliary}, {subsidiary}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "ancillary":
     accessory, accompanying, additional, adjuvant, another,
     appurtenant, assistant, assisting, attendant, attending, auxiliary,
     coincident, collateral, contributory, extra, farther, fostering,
     fresh, further, helping, incident, instrumental, ministerial,
     ministering, ministrant, more, new, nurtural, nutricial, other,
     plus, satellite, serving, spare, subservient, subsidiary,
     supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, ulterior
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ANCILLARY. That which is subordinate on, or is. subordinate to, some other
  decision. Encyc. Lond. 1