mutuatitious

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English

Etymology

See mutuation.

Adjective

mutuatitious (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Borrowed, taken from another person or thing.
    • 1681, Robert Boyle, New Experiments and Observations made upon the Icy Noctiluca ... To which is annexed a Chymical Paradox:
      That the Honourable Author shines only by his own Light, and hath not any thing mutuatitious in the following Treatise, []
    • 1714, Titus Lucretius Carus, T. Lucretius Carus, Of the Nature of Things, page 481:
      Their Light: whether it be innate, and the Gift of the Almighty at their Creation: or mutuatitious, and borrow'd from the Sun: which last is the Opinion of Metrodorus, in Plutarch, de Placit. Philosoph. lib. 2. cap. 17. and with him agree many of the modern both Philosophers and Astronomers; []