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Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.

The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.

Added; additional. [Obs.] An ascriptitious and supernumerary God. Farindon.

The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.

The ratio of the long to the short side of an aëroplane, aërocurve, or wing.

The act of viewing; a look. [Obs.]

The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough. Bailey.

Having rough leaves.

A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. Jer. Taylor.

The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.

The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins.

The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.

The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.

Roasting. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Assurance; certainty. [Obs.]

An obtaining or acquiring. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced. There is a difference between assertion and demonstration. Macaulay.

A sitting beside or near.

The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration. Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. Ray.