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Dictionary Results for adscititious:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

adscititious
    adj 1: added or derived from something outside; not inherent;
           "an adscititious habit rather than an inherent taste"
    2: supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a
       thing; "adscititious vowels"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Adscititious \Ad`sci*ti"tious\, a. [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. -- Ad`sci*ti"tious*ly,
   adv.
   [1913 Webster]

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