Crossword-Solution: ADVENTITIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Adventitious | a. | Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. |
| Adventitious | a. | Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots. |
| Adventitious | a. | Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants. |
| Adventitious | a. | Acquired, as diseases; accidental. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ADVENTITIOUS (5)
Such an expression is often mistaken for manly frankness, when in truth it arises from the reckless indifference of a libertine disposition, conscious of superiority of birth, of wealth, or of some other adventitious advantage, totally unconnected with personal merit.
She was perfectly conscious, moreover, that she liked to think of his more adventitious merits; that her imagination was excited and gratified by the sight of a handsome young man endowed with such large opportunities--opportunities she hardly knew for what, but, as she supposed, for doing great things--for setting an example, for exerting an influence, for conferring happiness, for encouraging the arts.
But this other was of a sterner sort, and even in its shedding off of bank and hedgerow as it marched straight and full for the open downs, it seemed to declare its contempt for adventitious trappings to catch the shallow-pated.
Fusbius, who, in truth, saw little whither his counsel would in the end carry the Duke) without regard to such adventitious matters as rank or wealth, and purely for her beauty, talent, and virtue.
His fatal passion for play--the source of adventitious excitement at night, and of deep distress in the morning--seems to have led to frequent and inconvenient losses, and eventually to have plunged him into comparative distress.
Quotes with ADVENTITIOUS (3)
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
Evolution is adventitious and not foresighted. Only through the deaths of an immense number of slightly maladapted organisms are we, brains and all, here today.
We are explorers. We are at present, as far as we know, the only explorers of the universe. For a long time we thought that ours was the only planet that could support life. Then we found others that could — a few. For still longer we thought we were unique — the only intelligent form of life — a single, freakish pinpoint of reason in a vast, adventitious cosmos — utterly lonely in the horrid wastes of space.… Again we discovered we were mistaken…But intelligent life is rare……