adscititious
adjective
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The History of Adscititious
Adscititious comes from a very "knowledgeable" family—it ultimately derives from scīscere, the Latin verb meaning "to get to know, ascertain, vote for, approve." The related scīre means "to know" and is fundamental to science, conscience, prescience ("foreknowledge"), nescience ("lack of knowledge"), as well as adscititious. Admittedly, adscititious is more akin to adscīscere, which means "to admit" or "to adopt." This explains why adscititious describes something adopted from an outside source.
Word History
borrowed from New Latin adscītīcius, ascītīcius, from Latin adscītus, ascītus, past participle of adscīscere, ascīscere "to take to oneself, admit, adopt" (from ad- ad- + scīscere "to get to know, ascertain, vote for, approve," inchoative derivative of scīre "to know") + -īcius -itious — more at science
1620, in the meaning defined above
adscititious
adjective
Synonyms & Similar Words
- incidental
- accidental
- surface
- acquired
- superficial
- adventitious
- alien
- exterior
- external
- extrinsic
- foreign
- coincidental
- extraneous
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- essential
- natural
- intrinsic
- inherent
- integral
- constitutional
- indigenous
- basic
- fundamental
- inborn
- inbred
- native
- innate
- elemental
- immanent
- ingrained
- constitutive
- hardwired
- ingrain
- built-in
- congenital
- hereditary
- inner
- interior
- engrained
- inherited
- deep-rooted
- inmost
- meditated upon
- meditates
- meditates on
- meditates upon
- meditating
- meditating on
- meditating upon
- meditatingly
- meditation
- meditations
- meditative
- meditatively
- meditativeness
- meditativenesses
- meditator
- meditators
- mediterrane
- mediterraneal
- Mediterranean
- Mediterranean class
- Mediterranean cypress
- Mediterranean diet
- Mediterranean flour moth
- Mediterranean fruit fly
- Mediterranean release