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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.
Added; taken as supplemental; additional; not requisite.
ADSCITI'TIOUS
,Noun.
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.
Definition 2024
adscititious
adscititious
English
Adjective
adscititious (comparative more adscititious, superlative most adscititious)
- derived or acquired from something extrinsic; not part of the real, inherent, or essential nature of a thing
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XVII, The Beginnings
- 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; […] — yes then, you may say, his usefulness once more is quite obstructed; […] it is time that he take to bed, and prepare for departure, which cannot now be distant!
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XVII, The Beginnings