The act of supporting or propping up; the provision of corroborating evidence or auxiliary support.
From Latin adminiculatio (support), from adminiculatus. The -tion suffix creates a noun of action or process. This term developed in medieval legal Latin and appears occasionally in historical English legal texts.
Medieval lawyers developed whole families of related words from Latin roots—adminicule, adminicular, adminiculate, adminiculation—showing how legal language grew more and more specialized to describe tiny differences in meaning.
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