in Rhetoric and Grammar, signify certain words or things added to others, to amplify or augment the force of the discourse.

or ADJOINTS, in the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, denoted a class of members, attached to the pursuit of particular sciences. The class of Adjuncts was created in 1716, in lieu of the Eleves: they were twelve in number; two for geometry, two for mechanics, two for astronomy, two for anatomy, two for chemistry, and two for botany. The Eleves not taken into this establishment were admitted on the footing of supernumerary Adjuncts.