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adjectitious

adjectitious adjective: added; additional.

Adjective

adjectitious (not comparable)

  1. (formal) Added; additional.
    • An adjective, so called because adjectitious, or added to a substantive, denotes some quality or accident of the substantive to which it is joined […]a 1799, John Parkhurst, A Hebrew and English lexicon without points, page 25
    • Circumstances by which the obligations and rights, as well principal and essential as adjectitious, established by the species of contract in question, are respectively made to cease.1827, Jeremy Bentham, Rationale of Judicial Evidence: Specially Applied to English Practice: in Five Volumes, volume 2, page 484

Origin of adjectitious

Borrowed from Latin adiectīcius.

Words formed from adjectitious

Questions about adjectitious

What does adjectitious mean?
Adjectitious means added; additional.
What part of speech is adjectitious?
Adjectitious is an adjective.

Words near adjectitious in the dictionary

  1. adjectifying
  2. adjecting
  3. adjection
  4. adjectional
  5. adjections
  6. adjectitious
  7. adjectitiously
  8. adjectival
  9. adjectival clause
  10. adjectival clauses
  11. adjectival noun

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