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auxiliar

auxiliar adjective: auxiliary.

Adjective

auxiliar (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) auxiliary
    • The auxiliar troops and Trojan hosts appear.1715–1720, Homer, “Book II”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC

Noun

auxiliar (plural auxiliars)

  1. (archaic) An auxiliary.
    • Agricola, who perceav'd that the noiſe of this defeat had alſo in the Province deſirous of novelty, ſtirr'd up new expectations, reſolves to be before-hand with the danger : and drawing together the choice of his Legions with a competent number of Auxiliars, not beeing met by the Ordovices, who...1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, that Part especially now called England, Book II

Forms of auxiliar

pluralauxiliars

Origin of auxiliar

From Latin auxiliaris.

Words formed from auxiliar

Questions about auxiliar

What does auxiliar mean?
Auxiliar means auxiliary.
What part of speech is auxiliar?
Auxiliar can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near auxiliar in the dictionary

  1. Auxier
  2. Auxiers
  3. Auxies
  4. auxilian
  5. auxilians
  6. auxiliar
  7. auxiliaries
  8. auxiliarily
  9. auxiliarist
  10. auxiliarists
  11. auxiliarly

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