advenientadj.
/ədˈviːnɪənt/, U.S. /ədˈvinjənt/ That comes from outside, deriving from an external source; (also) extrinsically added as opposed to essentially inherent; additional.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adjective] > non-essential
accidental1387
casual1398
incident1523
accidentary?1549
accessarya1555
chanceablea1557
accessory1563
circumstant1583
advenient1594
adventive1605
adventitial1607
circumstantial1608
contingent1628
adventious1633
incidental1644
accessional1646
contingential1647
non-essential1647
extra-essential1667
attachable1798
dividuous1816
inessential1832
peripheral1902
1594 T. Lodge Wounds Ciuill War iv. i. sig. F3 Old Marius will foresee aduenient harmes.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. xii. 336 These are the advenient and artificiall wayes of denigration. View more context for this quotation
1667 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities (ed. 2) 300 The advenient Humane Soul becoming now the true Forme of the Humane Body.
1706 R. Brocklesby Explic. Gospel-theism i. iv. 64/2 The Holy Spirit being now advenient, she may be full to her self.
1790 J. Robins Bone to Pick i. 18 I tendered down 7s. 6d. for the time, refusing to pay the advenient rate.
1821 Methodist Mag. Mar. 85 This is a superadded favour, to be looked on..as purely advenient, and not of indispensable necessity to the maintenance of our being.
1923 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Sept. 596/2 There is in knowledge both an advenient physical influence from the thing and a projicient psychical reference to the thing.
1936 Nature 28 Mar. 522/1 Colour as experienced is..an indication..of the presence of specific chemical changes in the retina and the choroid under advenient electromagnetic influence.
2009 J. Llewelyn Margins of Relig. xvii. 361 Instead of being launched forward ecstatically, sublimity is instatic, advenient and passive.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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