adscititious
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- adscititiously adverb
Etymology
Origin of adscititious
1610–20; < Latin a ( d ) scīt ( us ) derived, assumed, foreign (past participle of a ( d ) scīscī ), equivalent to ad- ad- + scī- (stem of scīre to know) + -tus past participle suffix + -itious
Example Sentences
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The girls ticked off aquarellist, staphylococcic, gracilescent, adscititious, eupraxia, argillaceous, autochthan and umbelliferous.
From Time Magazine Archive
The loss of this adscititious adminicle would make the sage's impeccable, but lugubrious bosom vibrate with the horrors of dilution and dereliction.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
He that shall solicit the favour of his patron by praising him for qualities which he can find in himself, will be defeated by the more daring panegyrist who enriches him with adscititious excellence.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel
All notice, and some enjoy, this adscititious literary overtone.
From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive
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.
From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive
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