Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
adscititious .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed.
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- adjective
supplemental ; notinherent ororiginal
Etymologies
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Examples
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But they have no absolute power to signify anything, as a noun and verb have, but only an ascititious power to vary speech; just as they vary letters who mark spirits and quantities upon letters, these being the accidents and differences of letters.
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"This," -- according to that respectable authority, "seems to imply the reality of the business, those ascititious particles which he held together in his sensible shape being loosened at the vanishing, and so offending the nostrils by their floating and diffusing themselves in the open air."
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"This," -- according to that respectable authority, "seems to imply the reality of the business, those ascititious particles which he held together in his sensible shape being loosened at the vanishing, and so offending the nostrils by their floating and diffusing themselves in the open air." [
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801
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