mutuatitious

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adjective

Borrowed, taken from another person or thing.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectivemutuatitious (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteBorrowed, taken from another person or thing.

    That the Honourable Author shines only by his own Light, and hath not any thing mutuatitious in the following Treatise,[…]

    1681, Robert Boyle, New Experiments and Observations made upon the Icy Noctiluca ... To which is annexed a Chymical Paradox
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    Their Light: whether it be innate, and the Gift of the Almighty at their Creation: or mutuatitious, and borrow'd from the Sun: which last is the Opinion of Metrodorus, in Plutarch, de Placit. Philosoph. lib. 2. cap. 17. and with him agree many of the modern both Philosophers and Astronomers;[…]

    1714, Titus Lucretius Carus, T. Lucretius Carus, Of the Nature of Things, page 481

Origin

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