ancillaryadj.n.

Brit.

/anˈsɪləri/, U.S.

/ˈænsəˌlɛri/, Indian English

/ænˈsɪləri/

Forms: 1600s ancillarie, 1600s– ancillary.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ancillāris.

Etymology: < classical Latin ancillāris of or relating to a female slave < ancilla ancilla n. + -āris -ary suffix². Compare post-classical Latin ancillarius (12th cent.). With sense A. 3 compare French ancillaire (1803). N.E.D. (1884) gives the pronunciation as (æ·nsilări) /ˈænsɪlərɪ/.

A. adj.

1. Subordinate, subsidiary. Later also in weakened sense: supplementary, additional; accompanying. Usually with to. Cf. auxiliary adj. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > [adjective]

underheilda1300

underlouta1300

underling?1370

subjecta1382

obeisantc1390

obedienta1398

subditc1430

subordinatec1485

subjugal?c1500

liablec1571

subaltern1581

regardant1583

obnoxious1591

vassal1594

servient1606

subservient1638

succumbent1647

ancillary1667

secondary1667

supposite1677

discretional1776

obedientiary1794

heteronomousa1871

satellite1882

1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus i. 19 He presses the Prince to so equal a divident of himself between Arms and Arts, that neither may have cause to boast of their engrossing him..; but both being ancillary to his Regal Endowment, might indifferently be Candidates to his favour.

1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 60 God makes every thing ancillary hereunto.

1722 Ess. Catholick Relig. 42 Religious Faith and Worship are but as ancillary Duties and secondary Means, which..without Morality could by no means effect the happiness of Mankind in Society.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. iii. vii. 98 It is beneath the dignity of the king's courts to be merely ancillary to other inferior jurisdictions.

1836 H. Taylor Statesman viii. 49 It will be rather ancillary than essential.

1860 W. Davidson Detached Musings iii. 33 Additional arguments must necessarily therefore be advanced, as ancillary to those as yet employed.

1904 R. Holmes & S. E. Williams Treat. Law Mortgages (ed. 7) viii. 78 (heading) Of instruments collateral or ancillary to mortgages.

1999 J. R. Nicolson Shetland Fishermen iii. 35 A part-time occupation, ancillary to crofting or some other job.

2006 New Yorker 13 Nov. 79/2 An ancillary pleasure of the experience—what some critics have called the ‘Aha’! factor—was seeing how it worked.

2. That serves the needs or requirements of something, typically in a subordinate capacity; supporting; spec. (of an industry, occupation, etc.) supplying essential services to a central function or industry; (of a worker) responsible for tasks which support the primary activities of a service or organization. Cf. auxiliary adj. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > duties > [adjective] > providing essential support

ancillary1948

the world > health and disease > healing > healer > non-medical worker > [adjective]

ancillary1948

1788 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1787 1 Antiquities 22 The corporation of woollen weavers was the greatest and most powerful in Florence, containing in it, and presiding over many subordinate and ancillary trades, such as carders, dyers, &c.

1848 J. Arnould Law Marine Insurance II. ii. v. 652 Warlike stores..directly ancillary to warlike purposes.

1869 G. Rawlinson Man. Anc. Hist. 8 Geography, the other ancillary science to History.

1877 Contemp. Rev. 30 533 The termination of railway enterprise..and the consequent suspension of the ancillary industries.

1918 Mental Hygiene (U.S. National Comm. for Mental Hygiene) 2 389 Every professor must develop apprentices or ancillary workers of various sorts.

1948 B. Newman Baltic Background vi. 139 Sixty-five per cent of the Estonians are directly engaged in agriculture, and many more in its ancillary occupations.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 948/1 The Transport act..nationalized the railways, together with their ancillary services—docks, steamers, road vehicles, hotels and canals.

2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts vii. 151 Purpose-built hospitals served by armies of paramedics, technicians, ancillary staff, managers, [etc.].

†3. Of or relating to a female servant or female servants. Obsolete. rare.Apparently always with conscious reference to the Latin etymon.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [adjective] > relating to female servants

maid-like1606

ancillary1852

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. ix. 228 The ancillary beauty was the one whom the Prince had selected.

1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 399 Ancillary reformation has not yet begun to be thought of; cats are not more detrimental to mice..than these smashing wenches to..Sèvres teacups.

1909 W. J. Locke Septimus 173 The maid Edith had vanished, after the manner of many of her kind, into ancillary space.

B. n.

†1. A female servant. Cf. ancilla n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun]

esnec950

hindc1230

servant1340

servitor1419

ministrer?a1425

servera1425

myrona1450

obeisantc1475

servient1541

lout1567

squire1570

roguea1616

administer1677

minion1820

ancillary1867

sweater1900

1836 Metropolitan Aug. 445 How horror-struck would John Bull be with the sight of this ancillary of his household, if once a fairer one were placed beside her.

1867 G. Meredith in Fortn. Rev. 1 Sept. 294 They were yoked before the glad youth by his sister-ancillaries.

2. A thing which supplements or supports another, typically in a subordinate capacity; spec. (in abstract or figurative sense) an adjunct, a corollary, an accompaniment; (in concrete sense) an auxiliary item; a peripheral, an accessory (frequently in plural).

ΚΠ

1838 H. B. Wallace Stanley I. vi. 67 A policy which directly encourages study by providing its ancillaries.

1859 Fraser's Mag. Jan. 99/1 Plates, modest ancillaries to the text, thrown in for the delectation of the ‘polite reader’.

1885 Westm. Rev. July 25 Shipbuilding..and all other ancillaries of ocean trading.

1918 A. V. Huizinga Theol. Ess. 88 Might is but an ancillary of the right.

1953 Life 7 Sept. 59/2 Such complex ancillaries of living organisms as the nervous system..had appeared before the continuous fossil record began.

1971 R. D. Mandell Nazi Olympics ii. 62 German Olympism became absorbed by and eventually an ancillary of German politics.

1994 Hollywood Reporter 25 Oct. (Nexis) We live in an era where ancillaries such as video games, books and theme park rides can outgross the film on which they're based.

3. Grammar. Chiefly in Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages: a finite verb which combines with another verb to form a compound verb.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [noun] > other specific types of verb

vocative verbc1414

activec1450

passivec1450

substantive verba1475

neuter1530

gesture1612

nominal1666

quiescent1720

reduplicative1756

dative verb1844

factitive1845

preterite-present1859

compound verb1863

pro-verb1868

preterito-presentia1870

preteritive present1872

action verb1877

verbid1914

inversive1931

eventive1946

hypothetical1957

non-factive1970

commonization1973

contrafactive1985

1879 J. Beames Compar. Gram. Aryan Lang. India III. ii. 101 A further development of the analytical stem produces the large class of verbs with ancillaries, in which the master-stem, so to call it, remains unchanged, and the ancillary does all the work of conjugation.

1908 G. P. Taylor Student's Gujarātī Gram. (ed. 2) v. 80 A potential Compound Verb becomes passival in meaning by changing not the principal verb but its ancillary..to the passival form.

1982 F. R. Akrawy Standard Kurdish Gram. vii. 78 The Compound Verb is thus composed of the Verb (proper) and an additional word (or words) which is called the Ancillary (or Ancillaries) of the Compound Verb.

1995 A. N. Malik Phonol. & Morphol. Panjabi xv. 315 It is not possible to define precisely the nuances that an ancillary gives to the compound verb.

4. A person whose work provides support for the primary activities of a service or organization; an ancillary worker.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > healer > non-medical worker > [noun]

ancillary1962

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > assistant

assistant?1541

adjacent1600

help1645

helper1686

aide1762

asst1782

tenter1894

offsider1904

runabout1957

ancillary1962

gofer1967

1940 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 7 Mar. 14/1 An army corps normally is made up of four divisions, totalling in all with ancillaries some 80,000 men.

1962 Lancet 26 May 1114/1 An ample complement of ancillaries is essential. We would suggest one psychiatric social worker for each consultant team.

1982 Financial Times 17 Aug. 12/1 Bank staff can hardly expect..the kind of public support enjoyed by the low-paid hospital ancillaries.

1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 28 Sept. r14/4 Deaf children work in class, supported by ancillaries, and there is signing by everyone—teachers, helpers, children.

5. Originally and chiefly Indian English. A company which is controlled by another; = subsidiary n. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > other types of company

incorporation1530

acquisitor1668

private company?1711

private practice1724

public company1730

trading house1760

acquiror1789

in-company1791

public corporation1796

company1800

subsidiary company1823

proprietary company1824

stock-company1827

trust company1827

subsidiary1828

concessionaire1839

commandite1844

statutory company1847

parent company1854

mastership1868

state enterprise1886

Pty.1904

asset class1931

acquirer1950

parent1953

growth company1959

spin-off1959

non-profit1961

shell1964

not-for-profit1969

vehicle1971

spin-out1972

startup1975

greenfield1982

large-cap1982

monoline1984

small cap1984

mid-cap1988

multidomestic1989

dotcom1996

1963 Devel. Small Scale Industries India xv. 113 Family-owned ancillaries, and captive corporate arrangements have sprung up to take advantage of some schemes for assisting ancillaries.

1992 Sunday Times of India 16 Aug. 13/5 The units under his control would suddenly stop purchases from some privately-owned ancillaries... Krishnamurthy would then..ask his sons to negotiate to buy up these units. And before you knew it, the dried-up orders would start coming again to the ancillary.

2017 Monetary & Financial Statistics Man. & Compilation Guide (Internat. Monetary Fund) iii. 29/2 Domestic ancillaries are treated as an integral part of the parent corporation.

Compounds

ancillary relief n. Law legal remedy or relief which is incidental to other legal proceedings; spec. (chiefly English Law) a settlement for financial provision or division of property made in the course of proceedings for divorce, separation, or nullity of marriage.

ΚΠ

1822 G. Price Rep. Court of Exchequer 8 524 Relief was of two kinds,—final and ancillary; and in this case the Plaintiffs specifically prayed ancillary relief.

1957 Harvard Law Rev. 70 511 If the claim is stated as one for infringement, the action lies solely in the federal courts; but if it is worded as one for breach of contract, some state courts will view the requested injunction as ancillary relief and will therefore take jurisdiction.

1996 Cambr. Law Jrnl. 55 16 The respondent later applied for ancillary relief under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973.

2017 Guardian (Nexis) 17 May The timeline for ancillary relief is determined by the progress of the divorce.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022; most recently modified version published online January 2023).

单词	ancillary
释义	ancillaryadj.n. Brit. /anˈsɪləri/, U.S. /ˈænsəˌlɛri/, Indian English /ænˈsɪləri/ Forms: 1600s ancillarie, 1600s– ancillary. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ancillāris. Etymology: < classical Latin ancillāris of or relating to a female slave < ancilla ancilla n. + -āris -ary suffix². Compare post-classical Latin ancillarius (12th cent.). With sense A. 3 compare French ancillaire (1803). N.E.D. (1884) gives the pronunciation as (æ·nsilări) /ˈænsɪlərɪ/. A. adj. 1. Subordinate, subsidiary. Later also in weakened sense: supplementary, additional; accompanying. Usually with to. Cf. auxiliary adj. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > [adjective] underheilda1300 underlouta1300 underling?1370 subjecta1382 obeisantc1390 obedienta1398 subditc1430 subordinatec1485 subjugal?c1500 liablec1571 subaltern1581 regardant1583 obnoxious1591 vassal1594 servient1606 subservient1638 succumbent1647 ancillary1667 secondary1667 supposite1677 discretional1776 obedientiary1794 heteronomousa1871 satellite1882 1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus i. 19 He presses the Prince to so equal a divident of himself between Arms and Arts, that neither may have cause to boast of their engrossing him..; but both being ancillary to his Regal Endowment, might indifferently be Candidates to his favour. 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 60 God makes every thing ancillary hereunto. 1722 Ess. Catholick Relig. 42 Religious Faith and Worship are but as ancillary Duties and secondary Means, which..without Morality could by no means effect the happiness of Mankind in Society. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. iii. vii. 98 It is beneath the dignity of the king's courts to be merely ancillary to other inferior jurisdictions. 1836 H. Taylor Statesman viii. 49 It will be rather ancillary than essential. 1860 W. Davidson Detached Musings iii. 33 Additional arguments must necessarily therefore be advanced, as ancillary to those as yet employed. 1904 R. Holmes & S. E. Williams Treat. Law Mortgages (ed. 7) viii. 78 (heading) Of instruments collateral or ancillary to mortgages. 1999 J. R. Nicolson Shetland Fishermen iii. 35 A part-time occupation, ancillary to crofting or some other job. 2006 New Yorker 13 Nov. 79/2 An ancillary pleasure of the experience—what some critics have called the ‘Aha’! factor—was seeing how it worked. 2. That serves the needs or requirements of something, typically in a subordinate capacity; supporting; spec. (of an industry, occupation, etc.) supplying essential services to a central function or industry; (of a worker) responsible for tasks which support the primary activities of a service or organization. Cf. auxiliary adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > duties > [adjective] > providing essential support ancillary1948 the world > health and disease > healing > healer > non-medical worker > [adjective] ancillary1948 1788 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1787 1 Antiquities 22 The corporation of woollen weavers was the greatest and most powerful in Florence, containing in it, and presiding over many subordinate and ancillary trades, such as carders, dyers, &c. 1848 J. Arnould Law Marine Insurance II. ii. v. 652 Warlike stores..directly ancillary to warlike purposes. 1869 G. Rawlinson Man. Anc. Hist. 8 Geography, the other ancillary science to History. 1877 Contemp. Rev. 30 533 The termination of railway enterprise..and the consequent suspension of the ancillary industries. 1918 Mental Hygiene (U.S. National Comm. for Mental Hygiene) 2 389 Every professor must develop apprentices or ancillary workers of various sorts. 1948 B. Newman Baltic Background vi. 139 Sixty-five per cent of the Estonians are directly engaged in agriculture, and many more in its ancillary occupations. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 948/1 The Transport act..nationalized the railways, together with their ancillary services—docks, steamers, road vehicles, hotels and canals. 2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts vii. 151 Purpose-built hospitals served by armies of paramedics, technicians, ancillary staff, managers, [etc.]. †3. Of or relating to a female servant or female servants. Obsolete. rare.Apparently always with conscious reference to the Latin etymon. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [adjective] > relating to female servants maid-like1606 ancillary1852 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. ix. 228 The ancillary beauty was the one whom the Prince had selected. 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 399 Ancillary reformation has not yet begun to be thought of; cats are not more detrimental to mice..than these smashing wenches to..Sèvres teacups. 1909 W. J. Locke Septimus 173 The maid Edith had vanished, after the manner of many of her kind, into ancillary space. B. n. †1. A female servant. Cf. ancilla n. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] esnec950 hindc1230 servant1340 servitor1419 ministrer?a1425 servera1425 myrona1450 obeisantc1475 servient1541 lout1567 squire1570 roguea1616 administer1677 minion1820 ancillary1867 sweater1900 1836 Metropolitan Aug. 445 How horror-struck would John Bull be with the sight of this ancillary of his household, if once a fairer one were placed beside her. 1867 G. Meredith in Fortn. Rev. 1 Sept. 294 They were yoked before the glad youth by his sister-ancillaries. 2. A thing which supplements or supports another, typically in a subordinate capacity; spec. (in abstract or figurative sense) an adjunct, a corollary, an accompaniment; (in concrete sense) an auxiliary item; a peripheral, an accessory (frequently in plural). ΚΠ 1838 H. B. Wallace Stanley I. vi. 67 A policy which directly encourages study by providing its ancillaries. 1859 Fraser's Mag. Jan. 99/1 Plates, modest ancillaries to the text, thrown in for the delectation of the ‘polite reader’. 1885 Westm. Rev. July 25 Shipbuilding..and all other ancillaries of ocean trading. 1918 A. V. Huizinga Theol. Ess. 88 Might is but an ancillary of the right. 1953 Life 7 Sept. 59/2 Such complex ancillaries of living organisms as the nervous system..had appeared before the continuous fossil record began. 1971 R. D. Mandell Nazi Olympics ii. 62 German Olympism became absorbed by and eventually an ancillary of German politics. 1994 Hollywood Reporter 25 Oct. (Nexis) We live in an era where ancillaries such as video games, books and theme park rides can outgross the film on which they're based. 3. Grammar. Chiefly in Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages: a finite verb which combines with another verb to form a compound verb. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [noun] > other specific types of verb vocative verbc1414 activec1450 passivec1450 substantive verba1475 neuter1530 gesture1612 nominal1666 quiescent1720 reduplicative1756 dative verb1844 factitive1845 preterite-present1859 compound verb1863 pro-verb1868 preterito-presentia1870 preteritive present1872 action verb1877 verbid1914 inversive1931 eventive1946 hypothetical1957 non-factive1970 commonization1973 contrafactive1985 1879 J. Beames Compar. Gram. Aryan Lang. India III. ii. 101 A further development of the analytical stem produces the large class of verbs with ancillaries, in which the master-stem, so to call it, remains unchanged, and the ancillary does all the work of conjugation. 1908 G. P. Taylor Student's Gujarātī Gram. (ed. 2) v. 80 A potential Compound Verb becomes passival in meaning by changing not the principal verb but its ancillary..to the passival form. 1982 F. R. Akrawy Standard Kurdish Gram. vii. 78 The Compound Verb is thus composed of the Verb (proper) and an additional word (or words) which is called the Ancillary (or Ancillaries) of the Compound Verb. 1995 A. N. Malik Phonol. & Morphol. Panjabi xv. 315 It is not possible to define precisely the nuances that an ancillary gives to the compound verb. 4. A person whose work provides support for the primary activities of a service or organization; an ancillary worker. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > non-medical worker > [noun] ancillary1962 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > assistant assistant?1541 adjacent1600 help1645 helper1686 aide1762 asst1782 tenter1894 offsider1904 runabout1957 ancillary1962 gofer1967 1940 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 7 Mar. 14/1 An army corps normally is made up of four divisions, totalling in all with ancillaries some 80,000 men. 1962 Lancet 26 May 1114/1 An ample complement of ancillaries is essential. We would suggest one psychiatric social worker for each consultant team. 1982 Financial Times 17 Aug. 12/1 Bank staff can hardly expect..the kind of public support enjoyed by the low-paid hospital ancillaries. 1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 28 Sept. r14/4 Deaf children work in class, supported by ancillaries, and there is signing by everyone—teachers, helpers, children. 5. Originally and chiefly Indian English. A company which is controlled by another; = subsidiary n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > other types of company incorporation1530 acquisitor1668 private company?1711 private practice1724 public company1730 trading house1760 acquiror1789 in-company1791 public corporation1796 company1800 subsidiary company1823 proprietary company1824 stock-company1827 trust company1827 subsidiary1828 concessionaire1839 commandite1844 statutory company1847 parent company1854 mastership1868 state enterprise1886 Pty.1904 asset class1931 acquirer1950 parent1953 growth company1959 spin-off1959 non-profit1961 shell1964 not-for-profit1969 vehicle1971 spin-out1972 startup1975 greenfield1982 large-cap1982 monoline1984 small cap1984 mid-cap1988 multidomestic1989 dotcom1996 1963 Devel. Small Scale Industries India xv. 113 Family-owned ancillaries, and captive corporate arrangements have sprung up to take advantage of some schemes for assisting ancillaries. 1992 Sunday Times of India 16 Aug. 13/5 The units under his control would suddenly stop purchases from some privately-owned ancillaries... Krishnamurthy would then..ask his sons to negotiate to buy up these units. And before you knew it, the dried-up orders would start coming again to the ancillary. 2017 Monetary & Financial Statistics Man. & Compilation Guide (Internat. Monetary Fund) iii. 29/2 Domestic ancillaries are treated as an integral part of the parent corporation. Compounds ancillary relief n. Law legal remedy or relief which is incidental to other legal proceedings; spec. (chiefly English Law) a settlement for financial provision or division of property made in the course of proceedings for divorce, separation, or nullity of marriage. ΚΠ 1822 G. Price Rep. Court of Exchequer 8 524 Relief was of two kinds,—final and ancillary; and in this case the Plaintiffs specifically prayed ancillary relief. 1957 Harvard Law Rev. 70 511 If the claim is stated as one for infringement, the action lies solely in the federal courts; but if it is worded as one for breach of contract, some state courts will view the requested injunction as ancillary relief and will therefore take jurisdiction. 1996 Cambr. Law Jrnl. 55 16 The respondent later applied for ancillary relief under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. 2017 Guardian (Nexis) 17 May The timeline for ancillary relief is determined by the progress of the divorce. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022; most recently modified version published online January 2023). < adj.n.1663
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