Ăn'cil-la-ry, a.

(45), a. [Lat. ancillaris, from ancilla, a female servant.] Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid.

The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. Hallam.

Ancillary administration (Law), one subordinate to the original administration, taken out in the country where assets are locally situate. Story.