(adj) associated by chance and not an integral part; - Frederick W. Robertson, Example: poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form; they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character
n. [ L. adventus, fr. advenire, adventum: cf. F. avent. See Advene. ] 1. (Eccl.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas. [ 1913 Webster ]
Advent Sunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. The first or the expected second coming of Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. Coming; any important arrival; approach. [ 1913 Webster ]
Death's dreadful advent. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]
Expecting still his advent home. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]
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 ]
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