ancillary

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: an=cil=lar=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

ancillary, a. [L. ancillaris, fr. ancilla a female servant.].

 Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.  [1913 Webster]
"The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

ancillary

accessory, accompanying, additional, adjuvant, another, appurtenant, assistant, assisting, attendant, attending, auxiliary, coincident, collateral, contributory, extra, farther, fostering, fresh, further, helping, incident, instrumental, ministerial, ministering, ministrant, more, new, nurtural, nutricial, other, plus, satellite, serving, spare, subservient, subsidiary, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, ulterior

ROGET THESAURUS

ancillary

Aid

N aid, aidance, assistance, help, opitulation, succor, support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion, coadjuvancy, patronage, championship, countenance, favor, interest, advocacy, sustentation, subvention, alimentation, nutrition, nourishment, eutrophy, manna in the wilderness, food, means, ministry, ministration, subministration, accommodation, relief, rescue, help at a dead lift, supernatural aid, deus ex machina, supplies, reinforcements, reenforcements, succors, contingents, recruits, support, adjunct, ally, aiding, auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful, coadjuvant, subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary, at one's beck, at one's beck and call, friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed, neighborly, obliging, with the aid, by the aid of, on behalf of, in behalf of, in aid of, in the service of, in the name of, in favor of, in furtherance of, on account of, for the sake of, on the part of, non obstante, Int, help!, save us!, to the rescue!, alterum alterius auxilio eget, God befriend us as our cause is just, at your service.