a. and sb. [f. CO- + ADJUTANT; on the type of an assumed L. *coadjūtānt-em, pr. pple. of *coadjūtāre: see note to COADJUTOR.]
A. adj. Helping another or others, co-operating.
a. 1708. J. Philips, Cerealia, in Chalmers, 1810, VIII. 397/2 (R.). Tost By Thrascia’s coadjutant, and the roar Of loud Euroclydon’s tumultuous gusts.
1830. W. Phillips, Mt. Sinai, III. 491. A thousand hands were coadjutant.
B. sb. One who helps another, one of several mutual helpers.
1728. Pope, Lett., in Swift’s Wks. (1761), VIII. 260. The Dean tells me he is a coadjutant of that fool Smedley.
a. 1734. North, Exam. (1740), 198. Oates or some of his coadjutants.
