Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Help; support; that which supports or assists.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Help; support; also, a helper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Help ;support . - noun obsolete One who
helps .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Latin adjumentum, for adjuvamentum, inflected form of adjuvare ("to help"), from ad ("toward,to") + to help .
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Examples
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Fields from 1662 to 1706, and whose "Roscius Anglicanus" is a most valuable history of the stage of the Restoration, describes an actor named Johnson as being especially "skilful in the art of painting, which is a great adjument very promovent to the art of elocution."
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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