Obs. Also 7 ads-. [f. L. assistent-em, pr. pple. of assistĕre to ASSIST, as if ad. L. *assistentia.] Helpfulness; assistance.

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1642.  Sir E. Dering, Sp. on Relig., xvi. 83. Let him ordaine and censure, but with due assistency.

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1676.  Perrinchief, Chas. I. (1693), 230. And as in an Ecstasie to have left His senses without its Adsistency.

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