adjugate

[aj-oo-git, -geyt]

noun

Mathematics Now Rare.

1. adjoint.

Word History and Origins

Origin of adjugate¹

ad- + (con)jugate

Example Sentences

He condemns the insertion of a multitude of words which do not belong to the language, mentioning such unnaturalized foreigners as adversable, advesperate, adjugate, agriculation, abstrude, injudicable, spicosity, crapulence, morigerous, tenebrosity, balbucinate, illachrymable, etc., words to which the reader may, if he knows Latin, attach some sort of meaning, but which he would be slow to introduce into his speech or writing.

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