LekhoriLekhoriAn 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 […]
Ellipsis of adjunct professor.
I've been given the chance to do this through my own department and through university programmes that don't have tenure-track lines and are therefore more likely to seek assistance from adjuncts.
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.
To work as an adjunct professor.
I also nannied through the first part of graduate school. I had friends who bartended or worked at a wine store and also adjuncted. A lot of people would package these jobs together.
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
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