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noun

Adjunct n.

Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it. "Learning is but an adjunct to our self."

A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.

(Gram.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."

(Metaph.) A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.

(Mus.) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. (R.) See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.

adjective

Adjunct adj. Conjoined; attending; consequent. "Though that my death were adjunct to my act."

Adjunct notes (Mus.), short notes between those essential to the harmony; auxiliary notes; passing notes.

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Etymology of 'Adjunct'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adjunct" Quotes from Famous Books

... why go back so far? The same sentiment is prevalent in good society with respect to men's beards in this year of grace and smooth faces. Yet, if one chance to be looking at a Rembrandt instead of at society, what an infinitely handsomer adjunct to a noble face is a fine beard than a pair ...

— Concerning Animals and Other Matters • E.H. Aitken, (AKA Edward Hamilton)

... Both practices are offensive to a delicate ear. The particle absorbed occasions harshness, and the open vowel a vacuity equally inconvenient. Sometimes, therefore, to leave it open, and sometimes to ingraft it into its adjunct seems most advisable; this course Mr. Pope has taken, whose authority recommended it to me; though of the two evils I have most frequently chosen the ...

— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer

... by till the heritors were used to come to the kirk without a bell, I would get no steeple at all. I often wondered what made Mr Kibbock so fond of a steeple, which is a thing that I never could see a good reason for, saving that it is an ecclesiastical adjunct, like the gown and bands. However, he set me on to get a steeple proposed, and after no little argol-bargling with the heritors, it was agreed to. This was chiefly owing to the instrumentality of Lady Moneyplack, ...

— The Annals of the Parish • John Galt

... and appear in skirts to advantage. In cycling, moreover, they carry themselves much better than the majority of Frenchwomen do. They sit their machines gracefully, and the skirt, instead of being a mere bundle of stuff, falls evenly and fittingly like a necessary adjunct—the drapery which is needed to complete and ...

— With Zola in England • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

... tells us in his "Charicles," the Parasol was an indispensable adjunct to a lady of fashion. It had also its religious signification. In the Scirophoria, the feast of Athene Sciras, a white Parasol was borne by the priestesses of the goddess from the Acropolis to the Phalerus. ...

— Umbrellas and their History • William Sangster

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