Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Supplying help; helpful; corroborative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory.
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- adjective Supplying
help ;auxiliary ;corroborative ;explanatory .
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Examples
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The adjective, of course, is adminicular 'auxiliary, corroborative', which I intend to use whenever maximum obfuscation is a desideratum.
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He came: he found the islanders beside themselves at this unwelcome resurrection of the dead and the detested; he was shown, as adminicular of testimony, the traveller's uncouth and thick-soled boots; he argued, and finding argument unavailing, consented to enter the room and examine with his own eyes the sleeping Pict.
Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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He came: he found the islanders beside themselves at this unwelcome resurrection of the dead and the detested; he was shown, as adminicular of testimony, the traveller’s uncouth and thick-soled boots; he argued, and finding argument unavailing, consented to enter the room and examine with his own eyes the sleeping Pict.
sionnach commented on the word adminicular
corroborative
April 14, 2008