Definition of Adjutancy

1. n. The office of an adjutant.

Definition of Adjutancy

1. Noun. the state or office of being an adjutant, assistant, or helper ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adjutancy

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Medical Definition of Adjutancy

1. 1. The office of an adjutant. 2. Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance. "It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division." (Burke) See: Adjutant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adjutancy

adjuster
adjusters
adjusting
adjusting entry
adjustive
adjustment
adjustment disorders
adjustmental
adjustments
adjustor
adjustors
adjusts
adjutage
adjutages
adjutancies
adjutancy (current term)
adjutant
adjutant bird
adjutant general
adjutant stork
adjutant storks
adjutants
adjutator
adjutators
adjute
adjuted
adjutes
adjuting
adjutor
adjutors

Literary usage of Adjutancy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The United Service Magazine by Arthur William Alsager Pollock (1904)
"It is also pointed out that in too many instances the Regular officer only accepts a Volunteer adjutancy because he has just been, or is about to be, ..."

2. Letters to Washington, and Accompanying Papers by George Washington, Stanislaus Murray Hamilton (1898)
"SIR, I have received yours of the Instant, in which you express a Desire to be removed to the adjutancy of the Northern Neck.2 I think the thing so ..."

3. A Concise History of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War. 1846-1847 by Daniel Tyler, John Taylor, Thomas Leiper Kane (1881)
"Lieutenant Dykes resigns his adjutancy—Dinner of Sheep's Lights—Mexican ... resignation of his adjutancy by 1st Lieutenant George P. Dykes is hereby ..."

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