adjunct

Definition

An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.

Etymology

From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.

Example Sentences

• "Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe / Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine."
• "Learning is but an adiunct to our ſelfe, And where we are, our Learning likewiſe is."
• "[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 […]"

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