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单词 adscititious
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adscititious

[ ad-si-tish-uhs ]
/ ˌæd sɪˈtɪʃ əs /
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adjective

added or derived from an external source; additional.

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

OTHER WORDS FROM adscititious

ad·sci·ti·tious·ly, adverb

Words nearby adscititious

adrift, adroit, à droite, ADS, ad sat., adscititious, adscript, adscription, ADSL, Adson's test, adsorb
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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 Bell
  • Apropos of this 'supererogatory and adscititious' prohibition.

    The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 1837|Various
  • Adscititious, ad-sit-ish′us, adj. added or assumed: additional.

    Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)|Various
  • 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, adverb

Word Origin for adscititious

C17: from Latin adscītus admitted (from outside), from adscīscere to admit, from scīscere to seek to know, from scīre to know
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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