Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
adventitious \ad`ven*ti"tious\ ([a^]d`v[e^]n*t[i^]sh"[u^]s), a.
[L. adventitius.]
1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent.
Syn: accidental; casual; incidental; additional;
supervenient; foreign.
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To things of great dimensions, if we annex an
adventitious idea of terror, they become without
comparison greater. --Burke.
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2. (Nat. Hist.) Out of the proper or usual place; as,
adventitious buds or roots.
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3. (Bot.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country
or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied
to foreign plants.
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4. (Med.) Acquired, as diseases; not hereditary. --AS
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5. (Med.) Occurring in an unusual place or arising from an
external source. --Stedman 25
[PC] -- {Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly}, adv. --
{Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adventitious
adj 1: associated by chance and not an integral part; "poetry is
something to which words are the accidental, not by any
means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson; "they
had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or
the result of a flaw in his character"
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