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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

... microscopic keenness at the points, climbing stiffly along the edges of rocks by a few of the stilt-like needles, and a very fair figure of the ECHINUS is presented. As a curious and beautiful creature he is full of interest, and as an adjunct to one's diet he is, in due season, full of excellent meat. We take the ugly and forbidding oyster with words of gratitude and flattery on our lips, and why pass with disrespect the creature that is beautiful and wonderful as well as savoury? To enjoy it to perfection, ...

— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

... may be offended by the "barbarous adjunct of rhyme," and by the solecisms and false quantities which sometimes occur, "et alia multa damna atque outragia," others may be amused with these emulations of the cloistered muse of the Middle Ages. The witty author of Whistlecraft has ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 • Various

... and again a number of the valuable squares north of Oxford Street were his, and as for Edgware Road—just as auctioneers advertise a couple of miles of trout-stream or salmon-river as a pleasing adjunct to a country estate, so, had Lord Woldo's estate come under the hammer, a couple of miles of Edgware Road might have been advertised as among its charms. Lord Woldo owned four theatres, and to each theatre he had his private entrance ...

— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett

... called it a cottage, and so we have no excuse for calling it anything else, though it was a big three-storied house, built of the soft creamy stone of the Buffland quarries, and it owed its modest name to an impression in the lady's mind that gothic gables and dormer windows were a necessary adjunct of cottages. She was a happy woman, though she would have been greatly surprised to hear herself so described. She had not been out of mourning since she was a young girl. Her parents, as she sometimes said, "had put her into black"; and ...

— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay

... of the rain and the gusty noise of wind that by daylight had been no more than a melancholy adjunct to the poetry of wet blossoms, became suddenly sinister and tragic and irresistibly atmospheric. Kenny stared with new vision at the dreadful old man in the bathrobe. One by one Kenny was fated to solve his mysteries when ...

— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple

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