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▪ I. aˈdjutor1
[a. L. adjūtor, n. of agent, f. adjuvā-re to help: see adjutant.]
A helper, assistant. Also rarely used for adjutant B. 2.
1531Elyot Governor ii. x. (1557) 118 Adjutours and supporters. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie 104 Companions, bold adjutors of thy acts. 1642Declar. Lords & Comm., For Rais. Forces 22 Dec. 7 That the Lord Lievtenants..appoint one experienced Souldier in every Regiment to be an Adjutor..to exercise the severall Companies of the sayd Regiments. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 321 Darius the King, with some adjutors of like dignity, entred into a pact. 1670J. Flamsteed in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 96 My friend, who is my sole adjutor, knows your hand. 1874Carlyle Let. 27 Apr. (1904) II. 306 Tait and some of his adjutors can set to work next day. 1893Nat. Observer 15 Apr. 540/2 That gentleman, as became an adjutor of the greatest living thing in petticoats, was equal to the occasion.
▪ II. † aˈdjutor2 Phys. Obs.
[ad. Fr. adjutoire (‘the upper bone of the arme toward the shoulder; so called by some anatomists.’ Cotgr. 1611), ad. L. adjūtōrium.]
Properly the humerus, but applied also to the ulna. See adjutorium, adjutory.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Cyrurg. Y⊇ fyrste parte of the great hande that is named vlna or adiutor. |