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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--adscititious This week's theme: miscellaneous words. adscititious (ad-si-TISH-uhs) adjective Derived from outside; external; additional. [From Latin adscitus, past participle of adsciscere (to admit or adopt), from ad- (toward) + sciscere (to seek to know), from scire (to know). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split) that also gave us schism, ski, and shin.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "[Dr. Kozak] stands in the middle of the adscititious atmosphere and soaks in the effect." Joel Wedel; Siphonophora; iUniverse; 2006. X-Bonus A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. -James Kern Feibleman, philosopher and psychiatrist (1904-1987)

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