Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ancillary"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Ancillary \An"cil*la*ry\, a. [L. ancillaris, fr. ancilla a
female servant.]
Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.

The Convocation of York seems to have been always
considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the
greater province. --Hallam.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]


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