a. Obs. [f. L. adventīci-us ADVENTITIOUS + -AL 1.] A by-form of ADVENTITIOUS. Also used subst.
1607. Topsell, Four-footed Beasts (1673), 102. Their flesh allayeth all adventitial and extraordinary heat.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Pet. iii. 5 (1865), 636/2. There be three degrees of ignorance … Secondly, adventitial, which is accompanied with actual sin.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 77. Neither doth nature prefer any creature for its adventitials or accidentals.
