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单词 adscititious
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adscititiousadj.

Brit. /ˌadsᵻˈtɪʃəs/, U.S. /ˌædsəˈtɪʃəs/
Forms: 1600s–1800s ascititious, 1600s– adscititious.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin adsciticius , -ous suffix.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin adsciticius, asciticius adopted (15th cent.), adventitious (from c1546 in British sources; < classical Latin adscīt- , past participial stem of adscīscere (also ascīscere ) to admit, to adopt ( < ad- ad- prefix + scīscere to get to know, to ascertain: see sciscitation n.) + -īcius : see -itious suffix1) + -ous suffix.
Now rare.
Forming an addition or supplement; not integral.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [adjective]
extrinsical1593
extraneal1618
adscititious1620
extrinsic1622
ascititious1628
extraneous1662
1620 F. Bacon Instauratio Magna ii. xlviii. 542 They therefore called this [motion] perpetual and proper..and they called the others adscititious.
1628 W. Prynne Vnlouelinesse of Louelockes 17 It is a very wicked thing, to attire the head, with dead and ascititious Haire.
1783 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 2 517 The adscititious inhabitants of Terra Firma.
1864 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. (1868) 2nd Ser. vi. 261 These initial vowels..are not radical, but merely adscititious in Greek.
1879 Contemp. Rev. 27 608 In taking on the onus of a ‘religion’, it has burdened itself with a whole cargo of ascititious and alien ideas.
1920 Times 1 Nov. 8 The [wood] fibres are adscititious and can be absorbed; but the [silica] grit they hold is indivisible.
2008 W. D. King Coll. of Nothing i. 32 Crates of chilly hardware—coffee tins of rusty nails and mismatched bolts and nuts..and adscititious crap.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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