The Seven Arts are the ancillary disciplinae; the first three constitute that grammatical, rhetorical, and logical training which is needed for an understanding of the holy texts and their interpretation.
This was still the supreme study, and all else, properly viewed, was ancillary to it.
Their need rightly to understand the Faith, define it and maintain it, was of such drastic power as to force into ancillary roles every line of inquiry and intellectual effort.
Both of the expeditions were projected largely for the purpose of making collections among little-known native tribes in the interests of the National Museum, and the general ethnologic inquiries were ancillary to this purpose.
As regards pure logic Aristotle sometimes seems to include it with metaphysics and physics, sometimes to regard it as ancillary to all the sciences.
In this case, the group is dominated by one large central boulder with four ancillary rocks spread about its base like the feet of a granite beast.
The shinden mansion was a sprawling complex dominated by a main building facing a pond, around which were flanked ancillary structures connected to it by open galleries protected only by a roof.
Adjacent to the tall mountain stones are several ancillary rocks approximately waist-high, over which flow rivulets of white sand, suggesting a cataract captured in monochrome.
Another beltancillary to this began in western Massachusetts and extended along the Erie Canal to Buffalo, thence to Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago.
Its functions are audit, inquiry, and impeachment, with such ancillary powers as practice to date has already indicated.
Of course, if any genuine metaphysical philosophy exists at all, its right and real object must be to try and discover true premises of the more abstract sort--premises, the truth of which affects the procedure of all the ancillary series.
It is plain that human production requires some particular utilization of a producing force, wider in itself than this or any other ancillary application of its energies.
The division of Sciences into ancillaryand "architectonic" is Aristotelian.
There they eat rice as well as meat, or rather more meat than rice, while here in Japan meat and fish are mere ancillary foods, rice being the chief article of diet.
At least among the circle of warriors in the age in which fidelity was everything and all other virtues were but ancillary to it, this loss must have been a great drawback to the improvement of the morality of the nation.
Nor is it easy to see how treaties can be consummated without their ancillary help.
And yet it is by virtue of this colonial statute, with all its ancillary barbarism, adopted by Congress, that slaves are still held at the national capital.
In a word this earliest art was ancillaryto the chase.
If, therefore, as is commonly true in estates of any magnitude, part of the assets can only be recovered by suit in other States, there must be ancillary insolvency proceedings there, to clothe the principal assignee with the right of action.
Nor will ancillary proceedings in insolvency be allowed to prejudice the rights of citizens of the State in which they are instituted to any security which they might otherwise have for debts due them from the insolvent.
All the ancillary vices flourished with a rank luxuriance.
Creator had no need of ancillary gods to complete his work.
This is one of many assertions of the existence of ancillary gods, who are not metaphors, nor natural laws, but personal rulers of provinces, which may very well be each a universe, free and independent.
The evidence for the ancillary daemons and gods he finds in the familiar places.
This ancillary character of Iris is exactly what she would bear, if her origin really lay in the primitive tradition of the rainbow.
It is mainly in her ancillaryrelation to Apollo that she should be viewed.
The patent milling process gave to Minneapolis an advantage soon apparent in the multiplication not only of flour mills, but of industries ancillary thereto.
There was long delay in securing the ratification of the treaties by the Senate, and necessary ancillary legislation from Congress.
Be ye purified for the divine work," in connection with the mention of the sannayya vessels, where this position proves that the hymn is ancillary to the action of sprinkling those vessels.
Footnote 380: This is the Mimamsa rule for settling the relative value of the proofs that one thing is ancillary to another.
We however reply that this objection is incorrect; for although the term samadhi is used for etymological reasons[385] to express the ancillary part which is really defined [in iii.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ancillary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
