Adjectitious

Quick meaning: Adjectitious is an adjective meaning (formal) Added; additional.

Meaning

(formal) Added; additional.

Example Sentences

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include adjectional, additory, accessional, adjectival, adnominal, accretive.

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