† ˈadjument Obs.
[ad. L. adjūment-um, contr. from adjuvāmentum, f. adjuvā-re to assist: see adjuvant.]
Help, assistance. Also of persons: A help, helper, or assistant.
| 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 3 Such thinges as may either be obnoxious or an adjument to nature. 1641 in Rushworth Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 287 Adjuments or Assistants to the Bishops in Cathedrals as be the Archdeacons abroad. 1663 R. Taylor Cromwell (1672) Pref. 3 By a mixt adjument of Tumults and Arms..did Cromwel usurp the Soveraignty. |