accessorial
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of accessorial
Example Sentences
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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
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
The belief in one Fate had its train of accessorial beliefs.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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