Defn: Coming from outward causes; superadded. [Obs.]
ADVENT
Ad`vent, n. Etym: [L. adventus, fr. advenire, adventum: cf. F. avent.
See Advene.]
1. (Eccl.)
Defn: The period including the four Sundays before Christmas. Advent
Sunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being
always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30).
Shipley.
2. The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
3. Coming; any important arrival; approach. Death's dreadful advent. Young. Expecting still his advent home. Tennyson.
ADVENTIST
Ad"vent*ist, n.
Defn: One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; — called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
ADVENTITIOUS
Ad`ven*ti"tious, a. Etym: [L. adventitius.]
1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.