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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Ancillary \An"cil*la*ry\, a. [L. ancillaris, fr. ancilla a
female servant.]
Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.
[1913 Webster]
The Convocation of York seems to have been always
considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the
greater province. --Hallam.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
ancillary
adj 1: furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an
adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and
emotions are auxiliary to each other" [syn: accessory,
adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant,
auxiliary]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
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) :
ANCILLARY. That which is subordinate on, or is. subordinate to, some other
decision. Encyc. Lond. 1
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