adscititious
Example Sentences
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The girls ticked off aquarellist, staphylococcic, gracilescent, adscititious, eupraxia, argillaceous, autochthan and umbelliferous.
From Time Magazine Archive
The loss of this adscititious adminicle would make the sage's impeccable, but lugubrious bosom vibrate with the horrors of dilution and dereliction.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
The Epicheirema is called Single or Double, says Hamilton, according as an "adscititious proposition" attaches to one or both of the premises.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
All notice, and some enjoy, this adscititious literary overtone.
From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive
We rob them of their amusing but adscititious qualities; we make them utterly uninteresting to precisely 99.99 per cent. of our fellow-creatures; and ourselves we make unpopular.
From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
