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adjunctive, a. and n.|əˈdʒʌŋktɪv|
[ad. L. adjunctīvus, f. adjunct-us: see adjunct and -ive.]
A. adj. Having the character or quality of contributing (to) or forming an adjunct.
a1820N. Drake Lit. Hours, Crit. ‘Farmer's Boy’, The imagery and adjunctive circumstances are original. 1855I. Taylor Restor. Belief 189 These affirmations are all of them adjunctive to his proper subject. 1859Mrs. Schimmelpenninck Princ. Beauty i. vi. §18 The adjunctive phases of Beauty may be broadly classed under two heads.
B. n. [The adj. used absol.] That which is, or may be, used as an adjunct; a thing or person of the nature of an adjunct. rare—0.
1755Johnson, Adjunctive, 1. He that joins. 2. That which is joined. |