adjuncts

Noun

adjunct (plural adjuncts)

1. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
   • Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare,
     This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe / Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...

   Synonyms:

   addition, supplement

2. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
   • [H]e made him the aſſociate of his Heir apparant, together vvith the nevv Lord Cottington (as an adjunct of ſingular experience and truſt) in forraine travailes, and in a buſineſſe of Love, and of no equall hazzard […]c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in...

   Synonyms:

   associate, business partner, cohort, colaborer /colabourer, collaborator, colleague, compeer, confrere, consociate, coworker /co-worker

3. An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
4. (dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
5. A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
6. A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
   • When a female enters the profession, she is generally not referred to as doctor but as a lady doctor or woman doctor. The use of "feminizing" adjuncts designates a deviation from the norm, doctor, and does not carry the weight of the term unmodified.1981 April 4, Signe A. Dayhoff, “Sexist Language: You Become Your Label”, in Gay Community News, page 9

   Synonyms:

   circumstant, circumstantial

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