[f. ADJUTANT; as if ad. L. *adjutantia: see -NCY.]
1. The office or rank of an adjutant.
1820. Outram, in Goldsmid’s Life, I. 27. An adjutancy is thought by the generality of people to be a very arduous and responsible situation.
1880. Athenæum, 24 July, 103/1. Having apparently retained the acting adjutancy up to that time.
2. fig. Official order.
1791. Burke, Appeal to Old Whigs, Wks. 1842, I. 527. It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division.
