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Auxiliary vs Curial - What's the difference?

auxiliary | curial |

As adjectives the difference between auxiliary and curial

is that auxiliary is helping; giving assistance or support while curial is pertaining to a court; courtly.

As a noun auxiliary

is a person or group that acts in an auxiliary manner.

auxiliary

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Helping]]; [[give, giving assistance or support.
  • auxiliary troops
  • Supplementary or subsidiary.
  • Held in reserve for exceptional circumstances.
  • (nautical) Of a ship, having both sails and an engine.
  • (grammar) Relating to an auxiliary verb.
  • Synonyms

    * (supplementary) accessory * (having sails and engine) motorsailer

    Noun

    (auxiliaries)
  • A person or group that acts in an auxiliary manner.
  • A sailing vessel equipped with an engine.
  • (grammar) An auxiliary verb.
  • *
  • The three traditionally recognized Non-modal Auxiliaries' are the per-
    fective '''Auxiliary''' ''have'', the progressive '''Auxiliary''' ''be'', and the passive '''Auxiliary

    ''be''. Perfective ''have'' is so-called because it marks the completion (hence, ''perfec-
    tion'') of an action; it is followed by a VP headed by a perfective ''-n'' participle, as
    in:
    (121)    The referee has [VP ''shown
    him the red card]
  • A marching band colorguard.
  • See also

    * axillary

    curial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Pertaining to a court; courtly.
  • Pertaining to the papal curia.
  • *2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 116:
  • *:In favouring the well-connected, politically and culturally sophisticated Italian merchants and diplomats who regularly arrived in England on curial business Henry killed two birds with one stone, gratifying popes by the attention and respect shown to their intimates, and employing them as his own eyes and ears at Rome […].
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