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Word of the Day for Wednesday, November 6, 2013

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, The Book of Khalid, 2012

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, Clarence, 2011

Adscititious comes from the Latin word adscītus which meant "derived, assumed, foreign."

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