a. Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force. Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Obtained from plants by distillation. [ Obs. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to accremention. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See accresce, Increment. ] (Physiol.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respects like the individual from which it proceeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. addititius, fr. addere. ] Additive. [ R. ] Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. adjectitius. ] Added; additional. Parkhurst. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. -- Ad`sci*ti"tious*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. the membranous outer covering of an organ or blood vessel. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to adventitia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. adventitius. ] 1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent.
Syn. -- accidental; casual; incidental; additional; supervenient; foreign. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Nat. Hist.) Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) Acquired, as diseases; not hereditary. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Med.) Occurring in an unusual place or arising from an external source. Stedman 25 [ PC ]

-- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. a- not + L. glutire to swallow. ] (Med.) Inability to swallow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. a- not + L. glutire to swallow. ] (Med.) Inability to swallow; dysphagia.
Syn. -- dysphagy. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

‖n. [ Aorta + -itis. ] (Med.) Inflammation of the aorta. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. appetitio: cf. F. appétition. ] Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. appétitif. ] Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arreptitius. ] Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell. [ 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 ]

a. [ L. ascriptitius, fr. ascribere. ] 1. Ascribed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Added; additional. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An ascriptitious and supernumerary God. Farindon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the type genus of the Bennettitales.
Syn. -- genus Bennettitis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. caementitius pertaining to quarry stones. See Cement, n. ] Of the nature of cement. [ R. ] Forsyth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. caespiticius, fr. caespes turf. ] Same as Cespitious. [ R. ] Gough. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. collatitius. See Collation. ] Brought together; contributed; done by contributions. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. commentitius. ] Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion. [ Obs. ] Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. compartitio. ] The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Their temples . . . needed no compartitions. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. competition. See Compete. ] The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competition. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no competition but for the second place. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly. A. T. Hadley.

Syn. -- Emulation; rivalry; rivalship; contest; struggle; contention; opposition; jealousy. See Emulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an agressive willingness to compete.
Syn. -- fight. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cyst + -itis: cf. F. cystite. ] (Med.) Inflammation of the bladder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The shedding of teeth. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. deglutire to swallow down; de- + glutire to swallow: cf. F. déglutition. See Glut. ] The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The muscles employed in the act of deglutition. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to deglutition. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. deleticius. ] Of such a nature that anything may be erased from it; -- said of paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dentitio, fr. dentire to cut teeth, fr. dens, dentis, tooth. See Dentist. ] 1. The development and cutting of teeth; teething. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The system of teeth peculiar to an animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. de`rma, -atos, skin + -itis. ] (Med.) Inflammation of the skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. One skilled in dietetics. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by direption. [ R. ] Encyc. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With plundering violence; by violent injustice. [ R. ] Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to enstatite. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Separable. [ Obs. ] “Exemptitious from matter.” Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. factitius, fr. facere to make. See Fact, and cf. Fetich. ] Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; contrived; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. -- Fac-ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fac*ti"tious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. De Quincey.

Syn. -- Unnatural. -- Factitious, Unnatural. Anything is unnatural when it departs in any way from its simple or normal state; it is factitious when it is wrought out or wrought up by labor and effort, as, a factitious excitement. An unnatural demand for any article of merchandise is one which exceeds the ordinary rate of consumption; a factitious demand is one created by active exertions for the purpose. An unnatural alarm is one greater than the occasion requires; a factitious alarm is one wrought up with care and effort. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Fact. ] 1. Causing; causative. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sometimes the idea of activity in a verb or adjective involves in it a reference to an effect, in the way of causality, in the active voice on the immediate objects, and in the passive voice on the subject of such activity. This second object is called the factitive object. J. W. Gibbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fictitius. See Fiction. ] Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame. [ 1913 Webster ]

The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. Pope.

-- Fic*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Fortuitous. ] Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

No mode of election operating in the spirit of fortition or rotation can be generally good. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of a blood-red color; crimson; (Bot.) brownish red. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, liver + -itis. ] (Med.) Inflammation of the liver. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to interstices; intermediate; within the tissues; as, interstitial cavities or spaces in the tissues of animals or plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An intervening period of time; interval. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]