@adventitiously I shall have to ask how Methuselah says it. in reply to adventitiously #. From Wordnik.com. [Niles's Blog] Reference
@adventitiously have you been pronouncing it like Methuselah? in reply to adventitiously #. From Wordnik.com. [Niles's Blog] Reference
Police malfeasance adventitiously preserved her from a disconfirming &, I suspect, unwelcome conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Against Our Will (first half)] Reference
From three-fifths to two-thirds of the cases of deafness are caused adventitiously -- by accident or disease. From Wordnik.com. [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference
But one day all this admirable monotony came to an end quite adventitiously, and events came treading on each other's heels. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Free to adhere to or reject what is known, human beings cannot be coerced by attempted external pressure or used as a means by others without prejudice to the inviolable truth in which they share innately through their participation in the light of being and which they attain adventitiously through the direct perception that unfolds determined truths to their intellectual gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Antonio Rosmini] Reference
To superpose them adventitiously is to destroy them. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
He expresses the unalloyed sensibility of an artist in terms of delicious contemporary life and gives us, adventitiously, romance. From Wordnik.com. [Since Cézanne] Reference
Paris and back again, with design to confuse and confound any jackals of the Pack that might have picked up his trail as adventitiously as. From Wordnik.com. [The Lone Wolf A Melodrama] Reference
In doing so he may, adventitiously, throw light on something more interesting than the past; he may adumbrate the outline of the coming movement. From Wordnik.com. [Since Cézanne] Reference
That a man of his speculative vigour, knowing so many extra-Hellenic races, should have hit upon one or two good things adventitiously is only to be expected. From Wordnik.com. [Old Calabria] Reference
Unlike many of his brethren, the brilliant lawyer had exceeded expectation, and shone even yet more conspicuously in the less adventitiously aided duties of the judge. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference
In the first place, all society at present rests on this institution, so that we cannot easily discern which of our habits and sentiments are parcels of it, and which are attached to it adventitiously and have an independent basis. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
The sum of its attributes or properties constitutes the totality of the thing, and is not adventitiously laid upon the thing: you can separate the parts of a thing; but you cannot take away its forces from any part, because they are its essence. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
Of course, no such result as this could come about adventitiously, as successful combination calls for the exercise of judgment and taste; but the initiatory steps could be taken -- the motive could enter art -- without the conscious supervision of the human agent. From Wordnik.com. [Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-1883, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 437-466.] Reference
What was once the clogging of his brain with the mauled grammar of students 'redundant essays in art survey classes, women whom he was involved with, and was obliged to attempt to make happy (such an inordinate amount of women, as his heart was a sponge of sorrow, caring deeply or loving adventitiously and incurring feminine wrath for it all, who were paintings of this life and mattered to him as well as mitigating those sorrows, the result of injustices), a futile effort that had ended worse than imagination had reach. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
I did so adventitiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Piltdown Mystery: An Exchange] Reference
Page xix bend down the leaves, never to rise again; because their streight parallel nerves, which extend and support them, are so rigid and fragile, the leaf would inevitably break when bent down to a right angle; therefore I suppose these waters which contribute to their supplies, are the rebounding drops or horizontal streams wafted by the winds, which adventitiously find their way into them, when a blast of wind shifts the lid; see these short stiff hairs, they all point downwards, which direct the condensed vapours down into the funiculum; these stiff hairs also prevent the varieties of insects, which are caught, from returning, being invited down to sip the mellifluous exuvia, from the interior surface of the tube, where they inevitably perish; what quantities there are of them!. From Wordnik.com. [Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.] Reference
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