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ancillary
/ˈæn.səˌlɛɹ.i/
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What does ancillary mean?
adjective
- Subordinate; secondary; auxiliary.
noun
- Something that serves an ancillary function, such as an easel for a painter.
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noun
- (archaic) An auxiliary.
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This is the case among the leisure class and among certain portions of the population which are ancillary to that class.
If this be so, Darwin's first and second principles are subordinate and ancillary to the third, an expression, so far as it is instinctive or hereditary, being "the direct result of the constitution of the nervous system."
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Here, too, we find medicine ancillary to religion.
There is only one exception to the principle of directing all our strength against the centre of gravity of the enemy’s power, that is, if ancillary expeditions promise extraordinary advantages, and still, in this case, it is a condition assumed, that we have such a decisive superiority as enables us to undertake such enterprises without incurring too great risk at the point which forms our great object.