auxiliaryadj.n.
/ɔːɡˈzɪlɪəri/, /ɒɡˈzɪlɪəri/, U.S. /ɔɡˈzɪljəri/, /əɡˈzɪljəri/, /ɑɡˈzɪljəri/, /ɔɡˈzɪl(ə)ri/, /əɡˈzɪl(ə)ri/, /ɑɡˈzɪl(ə)ri/ A. adj. Const. to.
1.
a. Helpful, assistant, affording aid, rendering assistance, giving support or succour.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [adjective]
lastfuleOE
helpinga1300
helplya1300
helpfulc1384
assistanta1400
succourablec1400
helpyc1440
aidant1449
adjutoryc1475
subsiduous1490
aidable1509
aidinga1525
aidful1535
adjuvant1574
adjuvable1598
assistful1600
auxiliary1605
recureful1606
seconda1616
succouring1616
coadjuvanta1625
adjutant1645
adjutorious1657
assisting1659
subventive1674
relievablea1693
subventitious1693
affording1873
succourful1898
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [adjective] > auxiliary or subsidiary
subsidiary1543
contributary1567
serving1567
auxiliar1583
contributory1594
auxiliatory1599
auxiliary1605
subministering1606
subserving1621
auxilianta1631
inservient1646
adminiculary1653
adminicular1660
accessorial1726
secondary1751
tributary1764
contributive1793
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Hh3 Mixt [mathematics] hath for subiect some..parts of Natural Philosophy: and considereth Quantity determined, as it is auxiliarie and incident vnto them. View more context for this quotation
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. i. 11 Calling upon the auxiliary name of Jesus to help her well home.
1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. ii. 108 In a well-balanced mind, the imagination and the understanding..are auxiliary to each other.
b. esp. in warfare. See B. 2. Also in the names of various special ancillary services as: Auxiliary Air Force (formed 1917), Auxiliary Fire Service (formed 1937, absorbed in National Fire Service 1941), Auxiliary Territorial Service (formed 1938, replaced by the Women's Royal Army Corps in 1949) (see also A.T.S. n., separate entry).
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [adjective] > auxiliary
auxiliary1603
supplementary?1793
society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > air force > [noun] > auxiliary
Auxiliary Air Force1917
weekend Air Force1943
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > auxiliary branch > Auxiliary Fire Service
Auxiliary Fire Service1937
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > special reserves or Territorial Army > women's
Auxiliary Territorial Service1938
A.T.S.1939
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 404 To send unto him auxiliarie souldiers.
1858 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VI. lvi. 437 Two auxiliary cohorts were cut to pieces.
1917 Act 7 & 8 Geo. V c. 51 §6 It shall be lawful for His Majesty to raise and maintain an Air Force Reserve and an Auxiliary Air Force.
1925 Times 19 Feb. 17/3 The City of London Auxiliary Air Force Squadron..one of the first to be formed under the scheme for home defence against air attack.
1937 Mem. on Emerg. Fire Brigade Organ. (Home Office) 11 The Auxiliary Fire Service is one which should make a considerable appeal to many men.
1938 Army Orders Sept. 9 Our will and pleasure is that there shall be formed an organization to be designated the Auxiliary Territorial Service; Our further will and pleasure is that women may be enrolled in this Service.
1939 War Illustr. 23 Sept. p. iii/1 W.A.T.S. (Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service.)
1939 War Illustr. 14 Oct. 151 (caption) Dame Helen Gwynne Vaughan, Director of the Auxiliary Territorial Service.
1940 Ann. Reg. 1939 86 The fighter and general reconnaissance squadrons of the Auxiliary Air Force had been called up.
1940 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 2 Oct.–26 Nov. 168 Men of the Auxiliary Fire Service have been fully tested by raid conditions.
c. in Grammar: see B. 3. Formerly applied to any formative or subordinate elements of language, e.g. prefixes, prepositions; cf. auxiliar n.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > [adjective] > relating to function words
syncategorematical1646
servile1668
auxiliary1677
syncategorematic1826
kenematic1939
kenemic1969
kenetic1969
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [adjective] > other specific types of verb
commonc1450
personal?1482
perfect1530
valuative1566
suppletive1633
auxiliary1751
active-passive1859
mutative1866
preterito-presential1875
preterite-present1888
passival1892
preteritive present1894
applicative1903
injunctive1910
activo-passive1927
ornative1934
eventive1946
notional1957
non-factive1969
contrafactive1979
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 282 Expressing the auxiliary Particles of the English language, by distinct points and places about the radical or integral words.
1751 J. Harris Hermes i. xi. 211 We proceed to those auxiliarly Parts, which are only significant, when associated.
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xliii. 146 The verbs auxiliary..are, am; was; have; had; do; did; make [etc.].
1834 R. Southey Doctor I. 3 Our auxiliary verbs give us a power which the ancients, with all their varieties of mood, and inflections of tense, never could attain.
2.
a. Subsidiary to the ordinary, additional. auxiliary language, a language, esp. one invented for the purpose (e.g. Esperanto), used as a means of communication by speakers from two different language groups; an artificial language (see artificial language n. at artificial adj. and n. Compounds 2).
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the mind > language > a language > [noun] > artificial or invented language
artificial language1705
natural language1774
Ziph1834
Volapük1885
Esperanto1892
pig Latin1896
pseudo-language1898
Idiom Neutral1903
auxiliary language1905
Panroman1907
universal1907
Ido1908
Mummerset1915
Interlingua1922
Reformed Neutral1922
occidental1926
interlanguage1927
world auxiliary1927
Novial1928
isotype1936
Interglossa1943
Klingon1985
leetspeak1996
leet2001
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) ii. 49 Auxiliary Seamen, are such as have another Trade besides, wherewith to maintain themselves, when they are not employed at Sea.
1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding ii. 43 To employ side-keels, which are..known as ‘drift-keels,’ ‘auxiliary keels,’ ‘bilge-keels.’
1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ II. i. 14 There is an auxiliary eye on each of the maxillæ.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 15 Aug. Esperanto aims at becoming a generally accepted ‘auxiliary language’.
1939 Nature 29 Apr. 717/1 The value of an auxiliary language as an agency for world peace.
b. Music. (See quot.)
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1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Auxiliary scales, the six keys or scales, consisting of any key major, with its relative minor, and the relative keys of each.
1873 H. C. Banister Music §225–6 Auxiliary notes are notes one degree above or below essential or unessential notes, preceding such notes, either with or before the accompanying harmony..The Appoggiatura, Acciaccatura, etc., are examples of such notes.
B. n.
1. One who renders help or gives assistance; a helper, assistant, confederate, ally; also, that which gives help, a source or means of assistance.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [noun] > that which or one who helps or means of help
redeeOE
helpc893
bootOE
friendOE
lithc1275
helpera1300
a helping handa1300
helpingc1330
bieldc1352
succour?a1366
supplementc1384
easementa1398
succourer1442
aid?1473
assister1535
assistant?1541
adminicle1551
mystery1581
second1590
auxiliatory1599
subsidium1640
suffragan1644
facilitation1648
adminiculary1652
auxiliary1656
auxiliar1670
ally1794
Boy Scout1918
assist1954
facilitator1987
1656 A. Cowley Davideis iv.126 in Poems He Rains and Winds for Auxiliaries brought.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium i. ii, in Wks. (1855) IX. 79 Suspected to take in auxiliaries from the spirits of darkness.
1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. ii. 94 The appearance of such a vigorous auxiliary..was, at first matter of great joy to Luther.
1862 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. (new ed.) iv. 67 A knowledge of certain other languages is a highly useful auxiliary in the study of our own.
2. Military (usually in plural) Foreign or allied troops in the service of a nation at war.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > auxiliary branch > auxiliaries
aida1460
aidanta1460
aid band1598
aid soldier1598
auxiliary1601
provincial1617
recruit1626
1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 151 They maintaine three sorts of soldiers..the third are Auxiliaries, which serue for pay.
1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 24 When Xantippus a Lacedæmonian, arrived with a Body of Auxiliaries.
1858 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VI. lvi. 437 A Gaul and a Roman happened to challenge one another to wrestle; the legionary fell, the auxiliary mocked him.
3. Grammar. A verb used to form the tenses, moods, voices, etc. of other verbs.They include auxiliaries of periphrasis, which assist in expressing the interrogative, negative, and emphatic forms of speech, viz. do (did); auxiliaries of tense, have, be, shall, will; of mood, may, should, would; of voice, be; of predication (i.e. verbs of incomplete predication which require a verbal complement), can, must, ought, need, also shall, will, may, when not auxiliaries of tense or mood.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [noun] > auxiliary verb
auxiliary1762
preverb1965
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xlii. 145 The use of the Auxiliaries.
1835 Penny Cycl. III. 160/1 After the verb to be, the next in importance among the auxiliaries is the verb to have.
1878 Morris & Bowen Eng. Gram. Exerc. Prim. 70 In deciding whether a verb is an auxiliary or not, it is necessary to decide whether it marks the time or the manner of action of another verb, or whether it makes the subject, or thing spoken of, the doer or sufferer of the action. If it does none of these things, then it is no auxiliary.
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4. Mathematics. A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulæ.
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auxiliary nurse n. an assistant nurse with a lower level of training than a (registered) nurse, typically providing basic patient care; cf. nursing auxiliary n. at nursing n. Compounds 1b.
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1890 Bristol Mercury 19 Mar. 3/2 The auxiliary nurse..whose services are now found to be absolutely necessary for carrying on the work.
1957 H. Bower Short Guide Soviet Life 58 There are also 600 schools for training nurses, feldshers (auxiliary nurses) and midwives.
1988 Oxf. Times 28 Oct. 19/6 Auxiliary nurses have even less of a future. With no nursing qualifications they are being regraded as ward assistants with a greater emphasis on menial tasks.
2006 Jrnl. Med. Ethics 32 493/2 It may be difficult to find employment in the NHS for a year if the local hospital has enough auxiliary nurses and porters.
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b. An organization which is subsidiary to a parent body, frequently performing ancillary or associated functions; spec. (originally and chiefly North American), (a) an organization, frequently made up of women, which provides voluntary assistance to a church, hospital, charity, etc.; (b) an organization which is adjunct to another body having a restricted membership, frequently being composed of the (female) relatives of the members of the parent body.
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1823 Ninth Ann. Rep. Female Auxiliary Bible Soc. Boston 3 Their Auxiliaries have rapidly multiplied.
1863 Rep. Woman's Relief Assoc. of Brooklyn Auxiliary to U.S. Sanitory Commission 9 The systematic, wide-spreading and successful labors of the Brooklyn Auxiliary, in furnishing substantial and costly supplies for the comfort of our sick and wounded soldiers, presents a model for all cities.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables i. 2 She..helped run the Sunday-school, and was the strongest prop of the Church Aid Society and Foreign Missions Auxiliary.
1938 Foreign Service Feb. 49/1 The Cook Council..purchased beautiful stands of colors..and a silk parade banner for the Department of Illinois Ladies' Auxiliary, in appreciation for its cooperation with thye Council during 1937.
1939 Flight 36 373/2 The units have been strengthened by..groups of pilots from..Air Transport Auxiliary. A.T.A. was..formed..for..assisting the regular airline people to maintain communications during and after the expected full-scale bombing attacks on this country.
1958 Life 14 Apr. 128/2 The Fifth Division did not yet have real debs or an organized girls' auxiliary.
1979 Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. k9/8 Los Flores de Abril, an annual benefit sponsored by the auxiliary of St. Joseph's Hospital, will be held April 29 at Skyline Country Club.
1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 25 Jan. a6/1 The Coast Guard Auxiliary will offer safety courses in power- and sailboating.
c. An auxiliary part of a mechanism, system, etc.; a subsidiary or supplementary device. See sense Additions 4.
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1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Auxiliary,..any machine except the principal one: a term applied specifically to the feed-pumps, fire-pumps, etc., in power plants.
1940 Railroad Mag. Apr. 35/1 It's a long drag to the next feed tank and you had better fill the auxiliary to its full capacity.
1976 P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 48/2 Auxiliary, (1) the name by which an engine is known when fitted for occasional use in a sailing yacht. (2) Machinery fitted in steam and motor vessels which is not a part of the main propelling machinery but used for ancillary purposes, such as pumps, capstan engines, air compressors, etc.
1987 Music Making July 37/1 A MasterSend for each auxiliary controls the overall output level of that auxiliary to the foldback amps, effects units and so on.
1991 Farmers Weekly (BNC) Jan. 30 British Standard (BS) figures, which again relate to an engine without power-sapping auxiliaries fitted.
d. An auxiliary nurse (see auxiliary nurse n. at Additions).
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1939 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 May 943/1 If we can get these 100,000 auxiliaries and see them through their hospital training we shall have made the biggest step forward yet towards the establishment of an effective emergency hospital scheme.
1976 L. Hockey Women as Nurses xi. 167 The proportion of auxiliaries in Hospital Group A is striking, 5 auxiliaries to every 7 other nursing staff.
1986 Nursing Times 3 Dec. 28/1 Each ward has a team of six auxiliaries who rotate in shifts.
2012 H. Noble Tears of Phoenix iii. 27 Ma was..ironing her new nurses' uniform ready for her first night-shift as an auxiliary at the local hospital.
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Christian Church. Designating a bishop appointed to act as an assistant to a diocesan bishop, archbishop, etc.; a suffragan bishop.Chiefly in auxiliary bishop, but also as a postmodifier in bishop auxiliary.While this term is commonly used for an assistant or subsidiary bishop in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches, such a bishop is typically referred to as a suffragan bishop in the Anglican Church; see note at suffragan n. 2.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > kinds of bishop > [adjective] > suffragan
suffragana1500
suffragan1583
suffraganean1683
suffraganeous1711
auxiliary1791
chorepiscopal1839
suffraganal1892
1791 J. Townsend Journey through Spain II. 2 The family where I took up my abode, was that of the auxiliary bishop.
1884 Irish Monthly Jan. 53 The Most Rev. Dr. Donnelly, before he became Bishop-Auxiliary of Dublin, revised these prayers and devotions.
1968 Times 28 Dec. 8/1 Mgr. Joseph Gray..has been appointed by the Pope to be Titular Bishop of Cataquas and Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Liverpool.
1996 M. Poukrat et al. A to Z of Orthodox Church (2010) 145 With twelve auxiliary bishops, Archbishop Iakovos is responsible for almost 500 large parishes.
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