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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Subsidiary \Sub*sid"i*a*ry\, a. [L. subsidiarius: cf. F. subsidiaire. See {Subsidy}.] 1. Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream. Chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary. --Florio. They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence. --Coleridge. 2. Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy; being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as, subsidiary payments to an ally. George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties. --Ld. Mahon. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Subsidiary \Sub*sid"i*a*ry\, n.; pl. {Subsidiaries}. One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary. --Hammond. | |
