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Adscititious Ad Si Tish Uhs Adjective Derived External Additional Latin Adscitus

The adjective "adscititious" means derived from outside, external, or additional, with origins in Latin words related to knowing and seeking.

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Front adscititious \ad-si-TISH-uhs\
Back adjective
Derived from outside; external; additional.

[From Latin adscitus, past participle of adsciscere (to admit or adopt), from ad- (toward) + sciscere (to seek to know), from scire (to know). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split) that also gave us schism, ski, and shin.]

Dr. Kozak stands in the middle of the adscititious atmosphere and soaks in the effect - Joel Wedel; Siphonophora; iUniverse; 2006

These were significant appendages, to be sure; not altogether adscititious. - Ameen Rihani, The Book of Khalid, 2012

His delineations of character and action, if executed with ability, will have a raciness and freshness about them, which will attest their fidelity, the secret charm, which belongs to truth and nature, and with which even the finest genius cannot invest a system, of adscititious and imaginary manners. - Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Clarence, 2011

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