ADSCITITIOUS

ADSCITI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin ascititius, from adscisco, ascisco, to add or join.]Added; taken as supplemental; additional; not requisite.ADSCITI'TIOUS, noun [Latin adstrictio, astrictio, of ad and stringo, to strain or bind fast. See Strict.]A binding fast. Among physicians, the rigidity of a part of the body, occasioning a retention of usual evacuations; costiveness; a closeness of the emunctories; also the styptic effects of medicines.

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adscititious. Adscititious, a. assumed, borrowed, counterfeit

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Ad′sci‐ti″tious (�), a. [[L. adscitus, p. p. of adsciscere, asciscere, to take knowingly; ad + sciscere to seek to know, approve, scire to know.]] Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. “Adscititious evidence.” Bowring. — Ad′sci‐ti″tious‐ly, adv.