ljutor (ajotor)

[L., He. and such as his adjutors were. Drayton, Barons' Wars, iv. 10. adjutoryt (aj'ö-to-ri), a. [L. as if * adjutorius , helping; cf. adjutorium, help: see adjutor .] Serving to help or aid. Blount ; Bailey . adjutrix (a-jö'triks), n.; pl. adjutrices (a-jö-trisez). [L., fem. of adjutor: see adjutor.] A female a istant. [Rare.] adjuvant (aj'ö-vant or a-jö'vant), a. and n. [L. adjuvan (t-)s, ppr. of adjüvare, help: see aid.] I. a. Serving to help or a ist; auxiliary; contributory: as, an adjuvant medicine. Cause adjuvant worketh not by himself, but is a helper. Blundeville . But that humidity is only an adjuvant and not even a nece ary adjuvant cause, is proved by the immunity of fruit-eaters in the swampiest regions of the equatorial coast-lands. Pop . Sci . Mo. , II. n . 1. A person or thing aiding or helping; whatever aids or a ists. Undoubtedly, a flavor smacking of the caucus, the jubi lee, adjuvants cause" is found in some of his [Whittier's] polemic strains. Stedman, Poets of America, p. 124. Specifically-2. In med., whatever aids in removing or preventing disease; especially, a substance added to a prescription to aid the operation of the principal ingredient.