accessorial
Americanadjective
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She exchanges some faux-profound dialogue with Blocker about finding comfort in the finality of death, and even gets to brandish a musket in a key moment, but her utility to the story is mostly accessorial.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2018
The monsters in District 9 – described as prawns – looked like pint-sized Transformers with accessorial tentacles and snouts.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2012
On lessening the percentage of combined carbon with formation of graphite the injurious influence of the accessorial constituents of cast iron is diminished, especially that produced by the presence of phosphorus.—Eisenhuettentechnik.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 by Various
Disabuse yourself, too," said she, laughing, "of all this accessorial grandeur, and bear in mind that you 'll not find him dressed in ermine, or surrounded with a collar and badge.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James
In nature, we see distinctly the figure and its more prominent parts, but we see the minute accessorial parts so indistinctly, that sometimes we can scarcely tell what they are.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
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