(verb) : ac-cresco (adc.), ēvi, ētum, 3
* To grow, to become larger by growth, to increase.
* 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.
* 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.
* Transf., in gen.
* 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
* 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.

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