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Definition of Excrescent
1. Adjective. Forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth).
Definition of Excrescent
1. a. Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.
Definition of Excrescent
1. Noun. Something growing, usually abnormally, out of something else. ¹
2. Noun. (phonetics) A sound in a word without etymological reason. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Excrescent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excrescent
Literary usage of Excrescent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"For examples of excrescent I, cf. ancien!, margen!, tyrant, pheasant. ...
was formed, by the addition of an excrescent / after n, from an older PAGEANT, ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"... but also in the chemistry of vital phenomena, further investigations on the
lines suggested may lead to "important 3. excrescent Resins. ..."
3. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"Cf. Embling (with excrescent g) for Emlin (Emeline), or Hambling for ... It is
different with Simon ; the excrescent d was early in vogue: JOHN SIMOND, co. ..."
4. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"Expunge the whole, or /. th' excrescent parts EM 11.49 Not that Fd /. the Beauties
from his book S. v. 103 Lord—see also House of Lords. ..."
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