| Back | adventious /ad-VEN-shuhs/ |
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| Front | adjective 1. Coming from outside: not inherent or native. 2. Happening by chance. 3. Appearing in an unusual or abnormal place. [A variant spelling of adventitious, from Latin adventicius (coming from without), from advenire (to arrive), from ad- (toward) + venire (to come). Earliest documented use: 1633.] “For the Greenies, the arrival of Musketaquid was almost adventious; they had never known Allston Brighton to have a visitor.” - Randy Steinberg; Concord; AuthorHouse; 2001. |
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