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Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. "The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province." (Hallam)
Origin: L. Ancillaris, fr. Ancilla a female servant.
(01 Mar 1998)
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