Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not inherent or essential; derived from something outside.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Added or derived from without; not intrinsic or essential; supplemental; additional. Also written
ascititious .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective derived or acquired from something
extrinsic ; not part of the real,inherent , or essential nature of a thing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective added or derived from something outside; not inherent
- adjective supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing
Etymologies
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Examples
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Accordingly this motion, because it ceases not but when others cease is felt instantly, they deem perpetual and proper, all others adscititious.
The New Organon 2005
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Unsatisfied, however, with natural beauty (like the people of all other countries) they strive by adscititious embellishments to heighten attraction, and often with as little success.
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Cézanne was direct because he set himself a task which admitted of no adscititious flourishes -- the creation of form which should be entirely self-supporting and intrinsically significant,
Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922
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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.
Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922
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All notice, and some enjoy, this adscititious literary overtone.
Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922
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Also he was the first to recognize that an editor has some rights and prejudices, that certain words make him sick; that certain other words he reserves for his own use, -- "meticulous" once a year, "adscititious" once in a life time.
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Also he was the first to recognize that an editor has some rights and prejudices, that certain words make him sick; that certain other words he reserves for his own use, -- "meticulous" once a year, "adscititious" once in a life time.
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems John McCrae 1895
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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.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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Now, the parenthesis, "as shown by the conformity, etc.," is an adscititious member of an Epicheirema, which may be stated, as a Prosyllogism, thus:
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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The Epicheirema is called Single or Double, says Hamilton, according as an "adscititious proposition" attaches to one or both of the premises.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
jmjarmstrong commented on the word adscititious
JM avidly advocates adscititious adoxography.
March 25, 2010