Definition of "aidant"

aidant

/ˈeɪ.dənt/

adjective
comparative more aidant, superlative most aidant
1. (obsolete) helpful, assisting
  Quotations
  All you unpublished virtues of the earth, / Spring with my tears, be aidant and remediate / In the good man's distress!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, [Act IV, scene iii]
noun
plural aidants
1. (rare) One who or that which aids; a helper.
  Quotations
  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
  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