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excrescent

[ ik-skres-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. growing abnormally out of something else; superfluous.
  2. Phonetics. (of a speech sound) inserted or added as a result of articulatory interaction or impetus, as the t- sound in sense (sents) or against (from Middle English ageynes ), without grammatical or historical justification; intrusive; parasitic.


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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·cԳ· adverb
  • p··cԳ adjective
  • super··cԳ· adverb
  • ܲe·cԳ adjective
  • un·cԳ· adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of excrescent1

1600–10; < Latin 泦ŧԳ- (stem of 泦ŧŧԲ ), present participle of 泦ŧ to grow out. See ex- 1, crescent
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It was a prodigious white fang excrescent from the jaw of the world.

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However, from a recessed area at the back its narrow casements and excrescent stairways are yet to be seen.

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It was that of a man six feet high, and broad in proportion, whose majestic and spacious brow betokened realms of elysian thought and excrescent ideality.

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Now if Vanitas had not cultivated those excrescent sensibilities by assiduous compression, if he had thought more of big brains than little feet, his tattered, cowhided friend might have trodden harmlessly on his pedal phalanges.

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All detail was lost—all color, all outline; even the surrounding mountains seemed to be but excrescent ridges of the plain.

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