Adscititious

Word ADSCITITIOUS
Character 12
Hyphenation ad sci ti tious
Pronunciations /ædsəˈtɪʃəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Adscititious"

What do we mean by adscititious?

Not inherent or essential; derived from something outside. adjective

Added or derived from without; not intrinsic or essential; supplemental; additional. Also written ascititious.

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. adjective

Derived or acquired from something extrinsic; not part of the real, inherent, or essential nature of a thing adjective

Added or derived from something outside; not inherent adjective

Supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing adjective

Derived or acquired from something extrinsic; not part of the real, inherent, or essential nature of a thing.

Adj, Additional, supplementary; not fundamental or intrinsic. Urban Dictionary

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The word "adscititious" in example sentences

Accordingly this motion, because it ceases not but when others cease is felt instantly, they deem perpetual and proper, all others adscititious. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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, ❋ Clive Bell (1922)

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. ❋ Clive Bell (1922)

All notice, and some enjoy, this adscititious literary overtone. ❋ Clive Bell (1922)

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. ❋ Unknown (1919)

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. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

Now, the parenthesis, "as shown by the conformity, etc.," is an adscititious member of an Epicheirema, which may be stated, as a Prosyllogism, thus: ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

The Epicheirema is called Single or Double, says Hamilton, according as an "adscititious proposition" attaches to one or both of the premises. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

In yesterday's paper (a very pretty one indeed) we had equiponderant, and another so hard I cannot remember it [adscititious], both in one sentence. ' ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

As the law was a parenthesis between Abraham's dispensation of promise of grace, and its enduring fulfilment at Christ's coming (Ro 5: 20, Greek, "The law entered as something adscititious and by the way"): so the Levitical priesthood was parenthetical and temporary, between Melchisedec's typically enduring priesthood, and its antitypical realization in our ever continuing High Priest, Christ. here -- in the Levitical priesthood. there -- in the priesthood after the order of Melchisedec. ❋ Unknown (1871)

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. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

"The Devil also, as in other stories, leaving an ill smell behind him, seems to imply the reality of the business, those adscititious particles he held together in his visible vehicle being loosened at his vanishing and so offending the nostrils by their floating and diffusing themselves in the open Air." ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

I would teach him, by noble precept and law-precept, by noble example most of all, that Mammonism was not the essence of his or of my station in God's Universe; but the adscititious excrescence of it; the gross, terrene, godless embodiment of it; which would have to become, more or less, a godlike one. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

Universe; but the adscititious excrescence of it; the gross, terrene, godless embodiment of it; which would have to become, more or less, a godlike one. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

The palm, for elegance, delicacy, and sweetness, is with one voice given to Menander, although Philemon frequently carried off the prize before him, probably because he studied more the taste of the multitude, or because he availed himself of adscititious means of popularity. ❋ August Wilhelm Schlegel (1806)

Christ, -- wherein by the exceeding diligence of a relentless master I was in days gone by deeply imbued from top to bottom with polite learning, instilled as it were by a clyster -- which still glories in the names of the erudite Barnes and Markland, will be vilely dishonoured by my outlandish and adscititious barbarisms. ❋ Mary Lamb (1805)

In reality they are in no way enabled to maintain their hold upon us but by means of the adscititious ornaments with which they are assiduously connected. ❋ Unknown (1796)

The [guacamole] was adscititious [to the] [burrito]. ❋ Memeslulz (2018)

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