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单词 adventitiously
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adventitiouslyadv.

Brit. /ˌadv(ə)nˈtɪʃəsli/, /ˌadvɛnˈtɪʃəsli/, U.S. /ˌædˌvɛnˈtɪʃəsli/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: adventitious adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < adventitious adj. + -ly suffix2.
In an adventitious manner; accidentally, incidentally.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adverb] > non-essentially or incidentally
accidentallya1398
accidentlya1460
accidentarily1591
extra-essentiallya1652
adventitiously1653
circumstantially1656
incidentally1665
1653 R. Lloyd Latine Gram. 25 All Pronounes, as implying, a quantity may be used partitively, yet such as have not that sense properly, but adventitiously, will not admit the structure of the partitives regularly.
1689 G. Harvey Art of curing Dis. by Expectation iii. 17 Lungs are hereditarily asthmatick, or adventitiously so, by universally inspiring, a thick smoaky foggy Air about London.
1746 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 82 The Phosphori..some of which shine of themselves naturally, as the Glow-worm and Dates; or adventitiously, as the Flesh of Animals, which most probably arises from a Degree of Putrefaction.
1852 W. E. Gladstone Exam. Reply Neapolitan Govt. 39 A political colour has been adventitiously affixed by some persons to my publication.
1895 Times 20 Nov. 12/1 The obstacles are few, and their enterprise is adventitiously assisted by certain advantages of a purely commercial kind.
1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. iii. 69 The whole of the root system of an adult monocotyledon arises adventitiously from the base of the stem.
1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 329 The same right eye had been adventitiously reblackened by Dominique-Louise.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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