adscititious

American  

[ad-si-tish-uhs] / ˌæd sɪˈtɪʃ əs /

adjective

1. added or derived from an external source; additional.

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adscititious British  

/ ˌædsɪˈtɪʃəs /

adjective

1. added or supplemental; additional

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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

The girls ticked off aquarellist, staphylococcic, gracilescent, adscititious, eupraxia, argillaceous, autochthan and umbelliferous.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those who were not satisfied with the dead-body theory contented themselves, like Dr. More, with that of "adscititious particles," which has, to be sure, a more metaphysical and scholastic flavor about it.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell

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 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

We rob them of their amusing but adscititious qualities; we make them utterly uninteresting to precisely 99.99 per cent. of our fellow-creatures; and ourselves we make unpopular.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive