单词 | adscititious |
释义 | adscititiousadj. Now rare. Forming an addition or supplement; not integral. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1620 |
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