adscititious
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- adscititiously adverb
Etymology
Origin of adscititious
1610–20; < Latin a ( d ) scīt ( us ) derived, assumed, foreign (past participle of a ( d ) scīscī ), equivalent to ad- ad- + scī- (stem of scīre to know) + -tus past participle suffix + -itious
Example Sentences
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The girls ticked off aquarellist, staphylococcic, gracilescent, adscititious, eupraxia, argillaceous, autochthan and umbelliferous.
From Time Magazine Archive
These were significant appendages, to be sure; not altogether adscititious.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
Now, the parenthesis, "as shown by the conformity, etc.," is an adscititious member of an Epicheirema, which may be stated, as a Prosyllogism, thus: If an instance, etc.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
The Single Epicheirema is said to be of the First Order, if the adscititious proposition attach to the major premise; if to the minor, of the Second Order.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
The loss of this adscititious adminicle would make the sage's impeccable, but lugubrious bosom vibrate with the horrors of dilution and dereliction.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
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