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VOCABULARY OF PHILOSOPHY – ADSCITITIOUS

ADSCITITIOUS (from ad-sciso, to seek after), that which is added or assumed. «You apply to your hypothesis of an adscititious spirit, what he (Philo) says concerning this πνεῡμα θεῑον, divine spirit or soul, infused into man by God’s breathing» (Clarke, Letter to Dodwell).