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adscititious
Derived or acquired from something extrinsic; not part of the real, inherent, or essential nature of a thing.
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When the poor manβs integuments, no longer nourished from within, become dead skin, mere adscititious leather and callosity, wearing thicker and thicker, uglier and uglier; [β¦] β yes then, you may say, his usefulness once more is quite obstructed; [β¦] it is time that he take to bed, and prepare for departure, which cannot now be distant!
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