accessionaladj.
/əkˈsɛʃn̩(ə)l/, /əkˈsɛʃən(ə)l/, /akˈsɛʃn̩(ə)l/, /akˈsɛʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /əkˈsɛʃ(ə)nəl/, /ækˈsɛʃ(ə)nəl/ Of the nature of an increase or augmentation; additional; supplementary; accessory.
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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
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 196 This accessionall preponderancy is rather in appearance then reality. View more context for this quotation
1673 H. Stubbe Further Iustification War against Netherlands App. 57 It may receive much accessional strength.
1705 Distinction of High-Church & Low-Church 20 The Part is Actually greater than the Whole, as including more in it, viz. that Accessional Degree which it superadds to it.
1760 R. Wetherald Perpetual Calculator iii. i. 120 The water may be raised and settle freely without any accessional force of flowing in and returning.
1805 J. Foster Ess. iv. viii. 253 You will find various accessional suggestions.
1855 C. G. F. Gore Mammon III. xi. 193 She doubted not that the union of two weak people would create accessional strength.
1920 N. Carolina Rep. 180 705 While subordination of perjury is accessional in its nature it has been made an offense separate and distinct from perjury, triable independently.
2006 Text 16 31 I am persuaded that the recombinative protocols and search mechanisms..are genuinely useful accessional modes not present in the codex format.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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