Word Study
succursal
CIDE DICTIONARY
Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary. [1913 Webster]
"Not a city was without its cathedral, surrounded by its succursal churches, its monasteries, and convents." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
succursal, adj. Eccl. (of a chapel etc.) subsidiary.
Etymology
F succursale f. med.L succursus (as SUCCOUR)
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