aidant

comparative more aidant · superlative most aidant

1. obsoletehelpful, assisting

   All you unpublished virtues of the earth, / Spring with my tears, be aidant and remediate / In the good man's distress!

   c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]

plural aidants

1. rareOne who or that which aids; a helper.

   More hindrances appear evident than aidants, or perhaps more about hindrances and barriers is recognized.

   1975, D. O. Wolfenbarger, Factors Affecting Dispersal Distances of Small Organisms, page 140

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   He said, "The court is now called upon to be an aidant to the enforcement of a judgment in rem, given by the Portuguese court," and then he said […]

   1883, Nathaniel Cleveland Moak, Reports of Cases Decided by the English Courts, page 540