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  • verb To help; to further.

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Examples

  • The word being explained, Solomon proceeded to repeat — “A man that marries must make up his mind to much ademption; he must be content to have his morning studies and his lucubrations disturbed, which will by no means adjuvate his improvements in the sciences.”

    Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments 1821

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  • Adjuvate means to (1) to help, aid, assist; (2) to facilitate (OED).

    March 8, 2013