adscititious
[ ad-si-tish-uh s ]
/ ˌæd sɪˈtɪʃ əs /
adjective
added or derived from an external source; additional.
Origin of adscititious
OTHER WORDS FROM adscititious
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Example sentences from the Web for adscititious
We rob them of their amusing but adscititious qualities; we make them utterly uninteresting to precisely 99.99 per cent.
Since Czanne |Clive BellApropos of this 'supererogatory and adscititious' prohibition.
Adscititious, ad-sit-ish′us, adj. added or assumed: additional.
All notice, and some enjoy, this adscititious literary overtone.
Since Czanne |Clive Bell
British Dictionary definitions for adscititious
adscititious
/ (ˌædsɪˈtɪʃəs) /
adjective
added or supplemental; additional
Derived forms of adscititious
adscititiously, adverbWord Origin for adscititious
C17: from Latin
adscītus admitted (from outside), from
adscīscere to admit, from
scīscere to seek to know, from
scīre to know