a. and sb. arch. [ad. L. auxiliār-is, f. auxili-um help: see -AR1.]
A. adj. AUXILIARY, helpful, assistant (to).
1583. Exec. Treason (1675), 38. The same Forces with other auxiliar Companies … landed.
1659. Instruct. Oratory, 30. The Auxiliar verbs.
1718. Pope, Iliad, II. 987. Th’ auxiliar troops and Trojan hosts appear.
1814. Wordsw., Excurs., IV. 1242. Subservient still to moral purposes, Auxiliar to divine.
B. sb. An AUXILIARY, helper, assistant; something that helps towards a purpose.
1670. Milton, Hist. Brit., Wks. 1738, II. 23. Two Cohorts more of Auxiliars … they quite intercepted.
1750. Harris, Hermes, I. iii. (1786), 25. Auxiliars, as when for Bruti, or Bruto, we say, of Brutus, to Brutus.
1859. G. Meredith, R. Feverel, II. xiii. 274. They could not have contracted alliance with an auxiliar more invaluable.
