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  • 11adscititious — a. Supplemental, supplementary, superadded, adventitious, superfluous, redundant, alien, artificial, spurious, smuggled. See additional, accessary …

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  • 12adscititious — ad·sci·ti·tious …

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  • 13adscititious — ad•sci•ti•tious [[t]ˌæd sɪˈtɪʃ əs[/t]] adj. added or derived from an external source; additional • Etymology: 1610–20; < L a(d)scīt(us) derived, assumed + itious ad sci•ti′tious•ly, adv …

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  • 14adscititious — /ædsiˈtɪʃəs/ (say adsee tishuhs) adjective not inherent, but deriving from an external source. {Latin adscitus, past participle of adsciscere to adopt} …

  • 15adscititious —   a. supplementary; auxiliary …

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  • 16Adscititiously — Adscititious Ad sci*ti tious, a. [L. adscitus, p. p. of adsciscere, asciscere, to take knowingly; ad + sciscere to seek to know, approve, scire to know.] Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. Adscititious evidence. Bowring. {Ad… …

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  • 17adscititiously — adverb see adscititious * * * adscititˈiously adverb • • • Main Entry: ↑adscititious * * * adscititiously, adv. rare. (ˌædsɪˈtɪʃəslɪ) [f. prec. + ly2.] In an adscitit …

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  • 18Ascititious — As ci*ti tious, a. [See {Adscititious}.] Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. [1913 Webster] Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 19Redundance — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Redundance >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 redundance redundance Sgm: N 1 too much too much too many Sgm: N 1 superabundance superabundance superfluity superfluence| saturation Sgm: N 1 nimiety nimiety …

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  • 20skei- — To cut, split. Extension of sek . Derivatives include science, nice, shit, schism, sheath, ski, and esquire. 1. a. shin1, from Old English scinu …

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