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adscititious

adjective as in supplemental

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The loss of this adscititious adminicle would make the sage's impeccable, but lugubrious bosom vibrate with the horrors of dilution and dereliction.

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These were significant appendages, to be sure; not altogether adscititious.

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The Single Epicheirema is said to be of the First Order, if the adscititious proposition attach to the major premise; if to the minor, of the Second Order.

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

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Antonyms: subtraction, deduction, detraction. additional, a. supplemental, adscititious, supplementary. addle, v. muddle, confuse; spoil, rot. address, n. discourse, speech, lecture, oration, allocution; direction, superscription, delivery.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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