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Webster 1913 Edition

Adscititious

Adˊsci-ti′tious

,
Adj.
[L.
adscitus
, p. p. of
adsciscere
,
asciscere
, to take knowingly;
ad
+
sciscere
to seek to know, approve,
scire
to know.]
Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.
“Adscititious evidence.”
Bowring.
–
Adˊsci-ti′tious-ly
,
adv.

Webster 1828 Edition

Adscititious

ADSCITI'TIOUS

,
Adj.
[L. ascititius, from adscisco, ascisco, to add or join.]
Added; taken as supplemental; additional; not requisite.

ADSCITI'TIOUS

,
Noun.
[L. adstrictio, astrictio, of ad and stringo, to strain or bind fast. See Strict.]
A binding fast. Among physicians, the rigidity of a part of the body, occasioning a retention of usual evacuations; costiveness; a closeness of the emunctories; also the styptic effects of medicines.

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