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De - Pt| English Dictionary: 'auxiliary | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Auxiliary \Aux*il"ia*ry\ (?; 106), a. [L. auxiliarius, fr. auxilium help, aid, fr. augere to increase.] Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. {Auxiliary scales} (Mus.), the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under {Attendant}, a. {Auxiliary verbs} (Gram.). See {Auxiliary}, n., 3. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Auxiliary \Aux*il"ia*ry\, n.; pl. {Auxiliaries}. 1. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise. 2. (Mil.) pl. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force. 3. (Gram.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; [88]tre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish. 4. (Math.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formul[91]. --Math. Dict. | |
