adscititious

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The Word of the Day for June 23 is:

adscititious   \ad-suh-TISH-us\   adjective 
     : derived or acquired from something extrinsic 

Example sentence: 
     "As someone born in Baltimore as opposed to having moved there, I have been given the northern character..., a character that is adscititious to my father's way." (Michael Weaver, _My Father's Geography_)

Did you know?  
     "Adscititious" comes from a very "knowledgeable" family -- it ultimately derives from "scire," the Latin verb meaning "to know." "Scire" also gave us "science," "conscience," 
"prescience" ("foreknowledge"), and "nescience" ("lack of knowledge"). "Adscititious" itself comes to us from "scire" by way of the Latin verb "adsciscere," which means "to admit" or "to adopt." This explains why "adscititious" describes something adopted from an outside source. "Adscititious" also has a rarely encountered second sense, meaning "additional" or "supplemental" (as in "adscititious remarks").





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