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subventitious

subventitious adjective: helping; aiding; supporting.

Adjective

subventitious (comparative more subventitious, superlative most subventitious)

  1. (obsolete) helping; aiding; supporting
    • Monsieur Cuckoldry should never 1 be favourable nor propitious to them , -- that he should never help , aid , supply , succour , nor grant them any subventitious furtherance, auxiliary , suffrage , or adminiculary assistance1653-1693, Thomas Urquhart, The Works of Rabelais

Forms of subventitious

comparativemore subventitious
superlativemost subventitious

Questions about subventitious

What does subventitious mean?
Subventitious means helping; aiding; supporting.
What part of speech is subventitious?
Subventitious is an adjective.

Words near subventitious in the dictionary

  1. subventionize
  2. subventionized
  3. subventionizes
  4. subventionizing
  5. subventions
  6. subventitious
  7. subventive
  8. subventral
  9. subventrally
  10. subventrical
  11. subventricose

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