adjectitious

adjectitious

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adiectīcius.

Adjective

adjectitious (not comparable)

1. (formal) Added; additional.
   • a 1799, John Parkhurst, A Hebrew and English lexicon without points, page 25

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

   • 1827, Jeremy Bentham, Rationale of Judicial Evidence: Specially Applied to English Practice: in Five Volumes‎, volume 2, page 484:

     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.

   • 1870, A. C. Bradley and E. C. Benedict, "Insurance Company v. The Treasurer", United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 78, page 207

     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.

Derived terms

• adjectitiously

See also

• adjunct
• adjunctive