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Ancillary   Listen
adjective
Ancillary  adj.  Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. "The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province."






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"Ancillary" Quotes from Famous Books



... sister Dora (whom he certainly loved as much as it was possible for him to love anything but his own poems) as a kind of tributary dependency of his genius, much as a mountain might look down on one of its ancillary spurs. ...
— Among My Books • James Russell Lowell



Words linked to "Ancillary" :   appurtenant, adjunct, adjuvant, auxiliary, accessory, supportive



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