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adventitious
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synonyms: superadded, ectopic, heterotopic, adscititious ???
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Definition:1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.2. (Nat. Hist.) Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.3. (Bot.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.4. (Med.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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an Engine, so composed, that there is a conspiring communication betwixt its parts, by vertue whereof a very slight impression of adventitious matter upon some one part, may be able to work, on some other distant part, or perhaps on the whole Engine, a change far exceeding, what the same adventitious matter could do upon a Body not so contrived:
The Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies,and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume I (1666)
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Someone with a positive manner, perhaps a detective, used the expression “madman.” as he bent over Wilson’s body that afternoon, and the adventitious authority of his voice set the key for the newspaper reports next morning.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby
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