Obs. [ad. L. adjūment-um, contr. from adjuvāmentum, f. adjuvā-re to assist: see ADJUVANT.] Help, assistance. Also of persons: A help, helper or assistant.
1607. Walkington, Optick Glasse, 3. Such thinges as may either be obnoxious or an adjument to nature.
1641. in Rushworths Hist. Coll., III. (1692), I. 287. Adjuments or Assistants to the Bishops in Cathedrals as be the Archdeacons abroad.
1663. R. Taylor, Cromwell (1672), Pref. 3. By a mixt adjument of Tumults and Arms did Cromwel usurp the Soveraignty.