adcresco

ac-cresco ( adc. ), ēvi, ētum, 3, v. n., to grow, to become larger by growth, to increase.

I.

Lit.:

nobis jam paulatim adcrescere puer incipiat,

Quint. 1, 2, 1; so,

adcrescens imperator,

Amm. 27, 6, 13:

eruca,

Plin. 11, 32, 37; ib. 35, 41:

flumen subito,

Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 97; so,

nondum adcrescente unda,

Tac. A. 2, 8:

caespes jam pectori usque adcreverat,

id. ib. 1, 19.—Part.:

adcretus, in pass. sense,

wrapped up, Plin. 11, 32, 37.—

b.

Of abstract subjects:

valetudo decrescit, adcrescit labor,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 4:

amicitiam, quae incepta a parvis cum aetate adcrevit simul,

Ter. And. 3, 3, 7:

dolores,

Nep. Att. 21, 4:

invidia,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 26:

magnum facinus,

Sen. Ben. 1, 10, 4.—

II.

Transf., in gen.

A.

To be added to by way of increase or augmentation, to be joined or annexed to:

si decem jugera (agri) alluvione adcreverint,

Dig. 19, 1, 13, § 14:

veteribus negotiis nova adcrescunt,

Plin. Ep. 2, 8, 3:

sibi adcrescere putat, quod cuique adstruatur,

id. Pan. 62, 8:

trimetris adcrescere jussit nomen iambeis,

Hor. A. P. 252:

cum dictis factisque omnibus vana accresceret fides,

Liv. 1, 54, 2.—Hence,

B.

Jurid. t. t., to fall to one, as an increase of his property, Gai. 2, 199; Dig. 12, 4, 12 al.:

jus adcrescendi,

the right of increase, Gai. 2, 126; Dig. 7, 2, 1, § 3 al.