adjectitious

Definitions

Added; additional.

formal, not-comparable

Examples

“An adjective, so called because adjectitious, or added to a substantive, denotes some quality or accident of the substantive to which it is joined […]”

“Circumstances by which the obligations and rights, as well principal and essential as adjectitious, established by the species of contract in question⟳, are respectively made to cease.”

“Such matter⟳ is ordinarily either omitted or else inserted in the preamble; but it has here crept on to the end⟳ of a section, and appears as an adjectitious thought. It has no effect there which it would not have⟳ had if it had been inserted in a preamble or omitted altogether.”

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