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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ancillary \An"cil*la*ry\, a. [L. ancillaris fr ancilla a female servant.] Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. --Hallam. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ancillary adj : relating to something that is added but is not essential; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other" [syn: {accessory}, {adjunct}, {adjuvant}, {appurtenant}, {auxiliary}, {subsidiary}]
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