The Word of the Day for March 28 is: adscititious \ad-suh-TISH-us\ adjective 1 : derived or acquired from something on the outside 2 : supplemental, additional Examples: We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit, not for their adscititious or accidental advantages. — From Charles Caleb Coltons 1832 book Lacon I thrilled to crates of chilly hardware—coffee tins of rusty nails and mismatched bolts and nuts, odd attachments, gimcrack, rickrack, and adscititious crap.... — From William Davies Kings 2008 book Collections of Nothing Did you know? Adscititious comes from a very knowledgeable family—it ultimately derives from scire, the Latin verb meaning to know. Scire also gave us science, conscience, prescience (foreknowledge), and nescience (lack of knowledge). Adscititious itself comes to us from scire by way of the Latin verb adsciscere, which means to admit or to adopt. This explains why adscititious describes something adopted from an outside source.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 02:26:36 +0000
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