profectitious

English

Etymology

From Latin prōfectitius, from prōficiscor (“set out, proceed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɒfɪkˈtɪʃəs/, /ˌpɹəʊfɛkˈtɪʃəs/

Adjective

profectitious (not comparable)

1. Proceeding from, or as if from, a parent; derived, as from an ancestor.
   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:

     The threefold distinction of profectitious, adventitious, and professional was ascertained.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “profectitious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)