excresco

ex-cresco, crēvi, crētum, 3, v. inch. n., to grow out or forth, to grow up, rise up (not ante-Aug.).

I.

Lit.

A.

In gen.:

quae si satis excreverint (palmae),

Col. 4, 21, 3:

abies, larix, palma in longitudinem,

Plin. 16, 30, 54, § 125:

lactucae ad semipedem,

id. 19, 8, 39, § 131:

in omni domo nudi ac sordidi in hos artus, in haec corpora quae miramur excrescunt,

Tac. G. 20; Aug. Serm. 216, 7:

colles sensim excreverant rudere,

Front. Aquaed. 18:

solum tumulo in altum,

Luc. 4, 11: si quando flumen imbribus ad tempus excrevit, is swollen, Dig. 43, 11, 1.—

B.

In partic., of morbid excrescences on the body:

excreverat in dexteriore latere ejus caro,

Suet. Galb. 21:

carnis excrescentes,

Plin. 23, 6, 59, § 111:

arsenicum tollit quicquid excrescit,

id. 34, 18, 56, § 178.—Hence,

2.

Subst.: excre-scentia, ium, n., in medic. lang., morbid excrescences on the body, Plin. 20, 9, 36, § 93; 22, 21, 29, § 61; 24, 4, 5, § 9; 24, 5, 11, § 19; 34, 18, 50, § 169 al.—

II.

Trop., to grow immoderately, to increase, enlarge:

nec minus evitanda est immodica ejus prooemii longitudo, ne in caput excrevisse videatur,

Quint. 4, 1, 62:

fructus in tantum excrevit, ut, etc.,

Dig. 36, 1, 27, § 16 fin.:

litium series,

Suet. Vesp. 10.—Hence, ex-crētus, a, um, P. a., grown up, fullgrown:

animalia,

Lact. 2, 11 med. al. (so, haedi, Verg. G. 3, 398, acc. to Serv., but v. excerno, II. A.).