adscititious

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The girls ticked off aquarellist, staphylococcic, gracilescent, adscititious, eupraxia, argillaceous, autochthan and umbelliferous.

From Time Magazine Archive

We rob them of their amusing but adscititious qualities; we make them utterly uninteresting to precisely 99.99 per cent. of our fellow-creatures; and ourselves we make unpopular.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive

The Epicheirema is called Single or Double, says Hamilton, according as an "adscititious proposition" attaches to one or both of the premises.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth

These were significant appendages, to be sure; not altogether adscititious.

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

Now, the parenthesis, "as shown by the conformity, etc.," is an adscititious member of an Epicheirema, which may be stated, as a Prosyllogism, thus: If an instance, etc.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth