adscititious vowels. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
An adscititious habit rather than an inherent taste. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Accordingly this motion, because it ceases not but when others cease is felt instantly, they deem perpetual and proper, all others adscititious. From Wordnik.com. [The New Organon] Reference
Unsatisfied, however, with natural beauty (like the people of all other countries) they strive by adscititious embellishments to heighten attraction, and often with as little success. From Wordnik.com. [The Settlement at Port Jackson] Reference
All notice, and some enjoy, this adscititious literary overtone. From Wordnik.com. [Since Cézanne] Reference
The Epicheirema is called Single or Double, says Hamilton, according as an "adscititious proposition" attaches to one or both of the premises. From Wordnik.com. [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference
Now, the parenthesis, "as shown by the conformity, etc.," is an adscititious member of an Epicheirema, which may be stated, as a Prosyllogism, thus. From Wordnik.com. [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference
Universe; but the adscititious excrescence of it; the gross, terrene, godless embodiment of it; which would have to become, more or less, a godlike one. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present] Reference
In reality they are in no way enabled to maintain their hold upon us but by means of the adscititious ornaments with which they are assiduously connected. From Wordnik.com. [Enquiry Concerning Political Justice] Reference
The Single Epicheirema is said to be of the First Order, if the adscititious proposition attach to the major premise; if to the minor, of the Second Order. From Wordnik.com. [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference
We rob them of their amusing but adscititious qualities; we make them utterly uninteresting to precisely 99.99 per cent. of our fellow-creatures; and ourselves we make unpopular. From Wordnik.com. [Since Cézanne] Reference
Cézanne was direct because he set himself a task which admitted of no adscititious flourishes -- the creation of form which should be entirely self-supporting and intrinsically significant. From Wordnik.com. [Since Cézanne] Reference
He that shall solicit the favour of his patron by praising him for qualities which he can find in himself, will be defeated by the more daring panegyrist who enriches him with adscititious excellence. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
Those who were not satisfied with the dead-body theory contented themselves, like Dr. More, with that of "adscititious particles," which has, to be sure, a more metaphysical and scholastic flavor about it. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books First Series] Reference
Also he was the first to recognize that an editor has some rights and prejudices, that certain words make him sick; that certain other words he reserves for his own use, -- "meticulous" once a year, "adscititious" once in a life time. From Wordnik.com. [In Flanders Fields and Other Poems] Reference
The palm, for elegance, delicacy, and sweetness, is with one voice given to Menander, although Philemon frequently carried off the prize before him, probably because he studied more the taste of the multitude, or because he availed himself of adscititious means of popularity. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature] Reference
I would teach him, by noble precept and law-precept, by noble example most of all, that Mammonism was not the essence of his or of my station in God's Universe; but the adscititious excrescence of it; the gross, terrene, godless embodiment of it; which would have to become, more or less, a godlike one. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
It seems therefore to be determined by the general suffrage of mankind, that he who decks himself in adscititious qualities rather purposes to command applause than impart pleasure: and he is therefore treated as a man who, by an unreasonable ambition, usurps the place in society to which he has no right. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
"The Devil also, as in other stories, leaving an ill smell behind him, seems to imply the reality of the business, those adscititious particles he held together in his visible vehicle being loosened at his vanishing and so offending the nostrils by their floating and diffusing themselves in the open Air.". From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books First Series] Reference
Of these adscititious passions, some, as avarice and envy, are universally condemned; some, as friendship and curiosity, generally praised; but there are others about which the suffrages of the wise are divided, and of which it is doubted, whether they tend most to promote the happiness, or increase the miseries of mankind. From Wordnik.com. [The Rambler, sections 1-54 (1750); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume I] Reference
If we therefore compare the value of the praise obtained by fictitious excellence, even while the cheat is yet undiscovered, with that kindness which every man may suit by his virtue, and that esteem to which most men may rise by common understanding steadily and honestly applied, we shall find that when from the adscititious happiness all the deductions are made by fear and casualty, there will remain nothing equiponderant to the security of truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Rambler, sections 1-54 (1750); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume I] Reference
“Nor do I perceive, “continued the scholar, “what adscititious happiness can possibly result to a man’s life from being married —”. From Wordnik.com. [Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments] Reference
21. adscititious. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
Being therefore forced to practise my adscititious character upon another stage, I betook myself to a coffee-house frequented by wits, among whom I learned in a short time the cant of criticism, and talked so loudly and volubly of nature, and manners, and sentiment, and diction, and similies, and contrasts, and action, and pronunciation, that I was often desired to lead the hiss and clap, and was feared and hated by the players and the poets. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
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