auxiliar, a. and n. arch.
(ɔːgˈzɪlɪə(r))
[ad. L. auxiliār-is, f. auxili-um help: see -ar1.]
A. adj. auxiliary, helpful, assistant (to).
| 1583 Exec. Treason (1675) 38 The same Forces with other auxiliar Companies..landed. 1659 Instruct. Oratory 30 The Auxiliar verbs. 1718 Pope Iliad ii. 987 Th' auxiliar troops and Trojan hosts appear. 1814 Wordsw. Excurs. iv. 1242 Subservient still to moral purposes, Auxiliar to divine. |
B. n. An auxiliary, helper, assistant; something which helps towards a purpose.
| 1670 Milton Hist. Brit. Wks. 1738 II. 23 Two Cohorts more of Auxiliars..they quite intercepted. 1750 Harris Hermes i. iii. (1786) 25 Auxiliars, as when for Bruti, or Bruto, we say, of Brutus, to Brutus. 1859 G. Meredith R. Feverel II. xiii. 274 They could not have contracted alliance with an auxiliar more invaluable. |