How to pronounce“adjunct”in English
fairly new invention in human history uh couple of Millennia old only after the invention of the alphabet and for a long time reading was really just a kind of
adjunct to oral communication because uh you know most of human history we just conversed and exchanged information through speech and so so one of the
fascinating things about early writing on slates on Papyrus even on early handwritten books is for instance there were no spaces between the words uh
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Definitions of “adjunct”
An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
“Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe / Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.”
A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
“[H]e made him the aſſociate of his Heir apparant, together vvith the nevv Lord Cottington (as an adjunct of ſingular experience and truſt) in forraine travailes, and in a buſineſſe of Love, and of no equall hazzard […]”
Connected in a subordinate function.
“Though that my death were adiunct to my Act, By heauen I would doe it.”
Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
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