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English
Etymology
From Latin adscitus, from past participle of adscisco (“admit”).
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Adjective
adscititious (comparative more adscititious, superlative most adscititious)
- Derived or acquired from something extrinsic; not part of the real, inherent, or essential nature of a thing.
1843, Thomas Carlyle, “XVII: The Beginnings”, in Past and Present, book 2:When the poor man’s integuments, no longer nourished from within, become dead skin, mere adscititious leather and callosity, wearing thicker and thicker, uglier and uglier; — yes then, you may say, his usefulness once more is quite obstructed; it is time that he take to bed, and prepare for departure, which cannot now be distant!
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