adjection
/əˈdʒɛkʃn/Now rare
noun
1Something that has been added or appended; an added statement, word, etc.; (Grammar ) an affix.
2The action or an act of adding or appending something.
Origin
Middle English; earliest use found in Statutes of the Realm. From Anglo-Norman adjeccion, adjeccioun, Anglo-Norman and Middle French adjection (French †adjection) something that has been added or appended, act of adding or appending something and its etymon classical Latin adiectiōn-, adiectiō act of adding, addition, anything added, additional clause or proviso from adiect-, past participial stem of adiicere + -iō.
- play the field
- play the game
- play the giddy goat
- play the market
- play the percentages (or the percentage game)
- play therapist
- play therapy
- plaything
- playtime
- play to the gallery
- play truant
- play up
- play up to
- playway
- play-white
- play with fire
- play with oneself
- playwork
- playworker
- play world
- playwright
- playwrightess
- playwrighting
- playwrite
- playwriter