a. [ L. adscitus, p. p. of adsciscere, asciscere, to take knowingly; ad + sciscere to seek to know, approve, scire to know. ] Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. “Adscititious evidence.” Bowring. --
a. Of, pertaining to, or like, anthracite;
n. (Med.) Inflammation of the vermiform appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ See Adscititious. ] Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. [ 1913 Webster ]
Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. of or pertaining to capacitance. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. [ From cit. ] The manners of a cit or citizen. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
a. [ City +-fy. ] Aping, or having, the manners of a city. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. citus swift (p. p. of cire, ciere, to move) + gradi to walk. See Cite. ] (Zool.) A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (
a. [ Cf. F. citigrade. ] (Zool.) Pertaining to the Citigradæ. --
n. One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen. [ Obs. ] Champan. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. citisein, OF. citeain, F. citoyen, fr. cité city. See City, and cf. Cit. ]
That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ This protection is . . . national protection, recognition of the individual, in the face of foreign nations, as a member of the state, and assertion of his security and rights abroad as well as at home. Abbot [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
I am not well,
But not so citizen a wanton as
To seem to die ere sick. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A female citizen. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. that portion of the radio frequency spectrum allocated by the FCC for the use of individual citizens for short-distance personal or business use, from either fixed or mobile stations. Abreviated CB. Called also
n. The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Coercive. “Coercitive power in laws.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having the power of knowing. [ Obs. ] “An innate cognoscitive power.” Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To deprive of the rights of citizenship. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
We have no law -- as the French have -- to decitizenize a citizen. Edw. Bates. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement;
Exciting causes (Med.),
a. Serving or tending to excite; excitative. [ R. ] Bamfield. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. That which excites; an excitant. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. So as to incite or stimulate. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. inimicitia enmity. See Inimical. ] Inimical; unfriendly. [ R. ] Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The mutual right to civic privileges, in the different States. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Min.) Containing leucite;
n. (Chem.) A yellow crystalline substance, occurring quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as in apple-tree bark, horse-chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin. Called also