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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
PROFECTITIOUS
Pro
`fec *
ti
"tious, a.
Etym:
[L. profectitius,
fr.
proficisci
to
set
out,
proceed.
]
Defn:
Proceeding
from,
as
from
a
parent;
derived,
as
from
an
ancestor.
[R.]
The
threefold
distinction
of
profectitious,
adventitious,
and
professional
was
ascertained.
Gibbon.
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