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Adscititious

adjective
1.
Added or derived from something outside; not inherent.
2.
Supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing.





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"Adscititious" Quotes from Famous Books



... is; and it was so. 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. This explains why editors write so little. In the end, out of mere good nature, or seeing the futility of it all, they contribute their words to ...
— In Flanders Fields and Other Poems - With an Essay in Character, by Sir Andrew Macphail • John McCrae


Words linked to "Adscititious" :   unessential, extrinsic, inessential


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