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ascititious

ascititious adjective: adscititious.

Adjective

ascititious (comparative more ascititious, superlative most ascititious)

  1. adscititious
    • Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name.1715–1720, Homer, “Book preface”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC

Forms of ascititious

comparativemore ascititious
superlativemost ascititious

Origin of ascititious

See adscititious.

Questions about ascititious

What does ascititious mean?
Ascititious means adscititious.
What part of speech is ascititious?
Ascititious is an adjective.

Words near ascititious in the dictionary

  1. ascites
  2. ascitic
  3. ascitic tap
  4. ascitic taps
  5. ascitical
  6. ascititious
  7. ascitogenic
  8. asclepiad
  9. asclepiadaceous
  10. Asclepiadae
  11. Asclepiadean

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