adscititious

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All notice, and some enjoy, this adscititious literary overtone.

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  1. adjective Not inherent or essential; derived from something outside.

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  • In yesterday's paper (a very pretty one indeed) we had equiponderant, and another so hard I cannot remember it [adscititious], both in one sentence.' —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1
  • All notice, and some enjoy, this adscititious literary overtone. —  Since Cézanne
  • 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. —  In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
  • Unsatisfied, however, with natural beauty (like the people of all other countries) they strive by adscititious embellishments to heighten attraction, and often with as little success. —  A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
  • When the poor man's integuments, no longer nourished from within, become dead skin, mere adscititious leather and callosity, wearing thicker and thicker, uglier and uglier; till no _heart_ any longer can be felt beating through them, so thick, callous, calcified are they; and all over it has now grown mere calcified oyster-shell, or were it polished mother-of-pearl, inwards almost to the very heart of the poor man: -- yes then, you may say, his usefulness once more is quite obstructed; once more, he cannot go abroad and do business in the world; it is time that _he_ take to bed, and prepare for departure, which cannot now be distant! —  Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
 

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  1. From Latin adscītus, past participle of adscīscere, to adopt : ad-, ad- + scīscere, to accept, inchoative of scīre, to know; see skei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin as if *adscititius, from adscitus, derived, assumed, foreign, past participle of adsciscere, later asciscere, take knowingly to one's self, appropriate, assume, adopt, from ad, to, + sciscere, seek to know, from scire, know: see science.
 

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