Dictionary entry

Coadjutor

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Co′ad‐ju″tor (?), n. [L. See Co-, and Aid.] 1. One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker.

Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor.

Sheridan.

2. (R. C. Ch.) The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice.