Definition of "coadjutor" [co•ad•ju•tor]

• A coworker; an assistant. See Synonyms at assistant. (noun)
• An assistant to a bishop, especially one designated to succeed the bishop. (noun)

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• "The smaller one, whom I have called the coadjutor, because her throne was less elevated than the princess ', put her finger on a button and a violent ringing broke the silence of the vast hallway."
• "Coadjutors are also temporary and perpetual; the first has no succession, the latter has, and is called coadjutor with right of succession."
• "First, they lie in wait for fat livings or sees which are held by an old or sick man, or even by one afflicted by an imaginary incompetence; him the Roman see gives a coadjutor, that is an assistant without his asking or wishing it, for the benefit of the coadjutor, because he is a papal servant, or pays for the office, or has otherwise earned it by some menial service rendered to Rome."