among philosophers, signifies something added to another, without being any necessary part of it. Thus, water absorbed by cloth or a sponge is an adjunct, but no necessary part of either of these substances.
in Metaphysics, some quality belonging to either the body or mind, whether natural or acquired. Thus, thinking is an adjunct of the mind, and growth an adjunct of the body.
in Music, a word which is employed to denominate the connection or relation between the principal mode and the modes of its two-fifths, which, from the intervals that constitute the relation between them and it, are called its adjuncts.
Adjuncts, in Rhetoric and Grammar, signify certain words or things added to others, to amplify or augment the force of the discourse.
Adjunct Gods, or Adjuncts of the Gods, among the Romans, were a kind of inferior deities, added as assistants to the principal ones, to ease them in their functions. Thus, to Mars was adjointed Bellona and Nemesis; to Neptune, Salacia; to Vulcan, the Cabiri; to the Good Genius, the Lares; to the Evil, the Lemures, &c.
Adjutant, in the military art, is an officer whose business it is to assist the major. Each battalion of foot and regiment of horse has an adjutant, who receives the orders every night from the brigade-major; which, after carrying them to the colonel, he delivers out to the serjeants. When detachments are to be made, he gives the number to be furnished by each company or troop, and assigns the hour and place of rendezvous.
Adjutants-general, among the Jesuits, a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned him, as England, Holland, &c.; and their business was to inform the father-general of state occurrences in such countries. To this end they had their correspondents delegated, emissaries, visitors, regents, provincials, &c.
Adjutorium, a term used by physicians for any medicine in a prescription but the capital one.
Adle Eggs, such as have not received an impregnation from the semen of the cock.
Adlegation, a term formerly used in the public law of the German empire, to denote the right claimed by the states of the empire of adjoining plenipotentiaries, in public treaties and negotiations, to those of the emperor, for the transacting of matters which relate to the empire in general; in which sense adlegation differs from legation, which is the right of sending ambassadors on a person's own account.
Adlocution, Adlocutio, in Antiquity, is chiefly understood of speeches made by Roman generals to their armies, to encourage them before a battle. We frequently find those allocutions expressed on medals by the abbreviation ADLOCUT. COH.—The general is sometimes represented as seated on a tribunal, often on a bank or mound of turf, with the cohorts ranged orderly round him, in manipuli et turmae. The usual formula in allocutions was, Fortis esset ac fidus.
Admanuenses, in ancient law-books, persons who swore by laying their hands on the book, as was the case with laymen. Clerks did not swear on the book, their word being reputed as their oath; whence they were also denominated fide digni.
Adminicule, a term used chiefly in old law-books to imply an aid, help, assistance, or support. The word is Latin, adminiculum; and derived from adminiculor, to prop or support.
Adminicule, in Scottish Law, signifies any writing or deed referred to by a party, in an action of law, for proving his allegations.