Auxiliar vs Assistant - What's the difference?
auxiliar | assistant |
(obsolete) auxiliary
* Alexander Pope
Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
* Beattie
(obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
*, II.3:
A person who assists or helps someone else.
(British) Sales assistant.
A software tool that provides assistance in some task.
In obsolete terms the difference between auxiliar and assistant
is that auxiliar is auxiliary while assistant is someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.auxiliar
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Adjective
(-)- The auxiliar troops and Trojan hosts appear.
assistant
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Alternative forms
* assistaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(-) (attributive)- an assistant surgeon
- Genius and learning are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
Noun
(en noun)- a woman of great authority, having first yeelded an accompt unto her Citizens, and shewed good reasons why she was resolved to end her life, earnestly entreated Pompey to be an assistant at her death, that so it might be esteemed more honourable.
