subventitious
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]subventitious (comparative more subventitious, superlative most subventitious)
- (obsolete) helping; aiding; supporting
- 1653-1693, Thomas Urquhart, The Works of Rabelais:
- Monsieur Cuckoldry should never 1 be favourable nor propitious to them , -- that he should never help , aid , supply , succour , nor grant them any subventitious furtherance, auxiliary , suffrage , or adminiculary assistance