adscititious

[Lat. ascitus = approved, adopted; as cisco = to approve, to adopt, to join.] Joined; additional, supplemental. ( Bentham.) "He found no term characterizing the use in one litigation of evidence which had been elicited for fervice in another, so as to distinguish it from evidence collected solely for the lit litigation in which it is applied -and he called the former adscititious evidence,"Bowring: Jeremy Bentham's Works, § 1. ăd-sçi-ti-tious-lý, adv. [ADSCITITIOUS.] In an adscititious manner.