excrescential
English
Adjective
excrescential (comparative more excrescential, superlative most excrescential)
- Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
- 1853 August 4 – 1858 January 3 (date written), Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1870, →OCLC:
- The vestry, I think, occupies that excrescential edifice which I noticed yesterday as having grown out of the cathedral.
- 1910, George Bernard Shaw, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets:
- His ugliness was not unamiable: it was accidental, external, excrescential.
- 1996, David H. Lane, The Phenomenon of Teilhard:
- excrescential thinking patterns
References
- “excrescential”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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