ancillary

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Latin ancillāris (“ancillary; relating to female slaves”), from ancilla (“slave-woman”).

It is possible that the other industries which are rising as ancillary to mining may for a while and to a reduced extent hold their ground. — Impressions of South Africa, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
And in common life, whosoever has seen a person of powerful character and happy genius, will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him,--the persons, the opinions, and the day, and nature became ancillary to a man. — Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson
[224] When the words, and the thought in them, begin to be of overmastering importance in poetry, “scanning” acts as deputy of exact rhythm and song, until at last declamation pushes scanning aside, and rhythm is reduced to the same ancillary function once assigned to thought and words. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere

accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary

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