adventitious
adjective
associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part; extrinsic.
adventitiously
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a word derived from
adventitious.
Example Sentences
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The percentages rise when one parent is adventitiously deaf, and the other congenitally: 8.1 and 6.5.
From The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States by Harry Best
Although it has been sent by students from this side of the ocean to Europe for more than thirty years, it has not even adventitiously appeared.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
That a man of his speculative vigour, knowing so many extra-Hellenic races, should have hit upon one or two good things adventitiously is only to be expected.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
But one day all this admirable monotony came to an end quite adventitiously, and events came treading on each other’s heels.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various
The lowest percentages of all are in the case where both parents are adventitiously deaf and neither has deaf relatives: 0.7 and 0.3.
From The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States by Harry Best
