Ancillary

a.

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Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. - Hallam.

Adj.

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ancillary - relating to something that is added but is not essential; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other" Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, appurtenant, subsidiary, auxiliary

ANCILLARY. That which is subordinate on, or is. subordinate to, some other decision. Encyc. Lond. 1

accessory, accompanying, additional, adjuvant, another, appurtenant, assistant, assisting, attendant, attending, auxiliary, coincident, collateral, contributory, extra, farther, fostering, fresh, further, helping, incident, instrumental, ministerial, ministering, ministrant, more, new, nurtural, nutricial, other, plus, satellite, serving, spare, subservient, subsidiary, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, ulterior