adscititious \ad-si-TISH-uhs\, adjective: added or derived from an external source; additional. These were significant appendages, to be sure; not altogether adscititious. -- Ameen Rihani His delineations of character and action, if executed with ability, will have a raciness and freshness about them, which will attest their fidelity, the secret charm, which belongs to truth and nature, and with which even the finest genius cannot invest a system, of adscititious and imaginary manners. -- Catharine Maria Sedgwick Adscititious comes from the Latin word adscītus which meant derived, assumed, foreign.
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