A humour is a liquid or fluent part of the body, comprehended in it, for the preservation of it; and is either innate or born with us, or adventitious and acquisite.
But this adventitious melancholy which is here meant, is caused of a hot and dry distemperature, as [2435]Damascen the Arabian lib.
As a purlieu hunter, I have hitherto beaten about the circuit of the forest of this microcosm, and followed only those outward adventitious causes.
The failure of Impeachment, though fatal to his success, did not dissipate the support which his long services and marked fidelity had commanded, without any of the adventitious aids of power.
At the same time, the drama had begun largely to avail itself of adventitious aids to favour.
A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed.
An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds.
Lest these colors should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light.
These adventitious aids may still possess a potent influence in selling a new book even to-day, but they have little effect on the sale of the books which gravitate towards the book-barrow.
There are those who do it without any adventitious aid, and those who cover their sin with various accessories.
Mrs. Dutton brought with her one child, the beautiful girl introduced to the reader, and to whom she was studiously imparting all she had herself acquired in the adventitious manner mentioned.
The ornament is distributed so as to emphasize the aesthetic essence of the form; to idealize it even more, by adding adventitious interests harmoniously to the intrinsic interest of the lines of structure.
The relation to stability also makes us sensitive to certain kinds of symmetry; but this is an adventitious consideration with which we are not concerned.
The plastic arts begin, therefore, with adventitiousornament and with symbolism.
It is no adventitious charm; but the eye in its continual passage over the object finds always the same response, the same adequacy; and the very process of perception is made delightful by the object's fitness to be perceived.
Being adventitious they will remain optional, and since fancy is quick, and exotic beauties are many, there will be no end to the variations, in endless directions, which art will undergo.
Why should each, made evil now only by an adventitious appellation or a contrary fate, not vindicate its own ideal?
Mathematics owes its public success to the happy choice of a simple and widely diffused subject-matter; it owes its inner cogency, however, to its ideality and the merely adventitious application it has to existence.
The history of the conception among the Jews was entirely different, the element of goodness in the creator being there adventitious and the element of power original.
Military institutions, adventitiousand ill-adapted excrescences as they usually are, can acquire rational values in various ways.
It will no longer be necessary that nature should supply them spontaneously, by a rare adventitious harmony with his demands.
His authority--born of circumstance, and supported by adventitious aid--had left him.
Adventitious distinctions had disappeared for the instant.
But the book which he has translated possesses, besides these adventitious claims to respect, a supreme intrinsic value.
The fossils named Psaronius appear to have been fern-stems with a slender axis and a large mass of adventitious roots, as in some Dicksonias and in Osmunda regalis.
President Morris: Anywhere from one to eight sprouts will start from adventitious buds at the circle near the ground, and then I break all these off but one, letting that one grow.
A hickory root dug from the ground, divested of small rootlets, cut into segments a foot or more in length, and set perpendicularly in sand with half an inch protruding, will throw out shoots from adventitious buds.
Certainly adventitious circumstances were averse to that first love of hers, for, however much appearances were against him, the lock of hair which had decided her destiny was no love token of Du Meresq's.
The adventitious qualities are habits and passions, by virtue of which a man is inclined to one thing rather than to another.
It was not, however, that to life itself I had any, positive disgust, but that I was harassed beyond endurance by the adventitious miseries attending my situation.
And, indeed, the character of the Syrian monarch does by no means stand in need of any adventitious embellishment.
Of course it's only Southport--but I have larger hopes, inasmuch as it was just the meagre provincial conditions and the limited provincial interpretation that deprived the performance of all adventitious aid.
My hopes rest solely on intrinsic charms--the adventitious graces of art are not "in it.
Now when congenital deaf-mutes marry, they show a strong tendency to transmit their defect to offspring, but the children of adventitious deaf-mutes are always normal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adventitious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
