(P. a.) : ex-cresco, crēvi, crētum, 3
* V. inch. n., to grow out or forth, to grow up, rise up (not ante-Aug.).
* Lit.
* 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.
* 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, , grown up, fullgrown: animalia,Lact. 2, 11 med. al. (so, haedi, Verg. G. 3, 398, acc. to Serv., but v. excerno, II. A.).
* 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.

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