▪ I. accumulating, vbl. n.
(əˈkjuːmjʊleɪtɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of heaping up, of gathering, or growing into a heap. Also gerundially.
| 1794 Sullivan View Nat. I. 76 These different matters, in accumulating, form a cone, the necessary shape given by accumulated substances falling from the same given point. 1861 Geo. Eliot Silas M. 15 How the love of accumulating money grows an absorbing passion. |
attrib.
| 1852 M{supc}Culloch Taxation (ed. 2) iii. i. 419 By giving additional force to the accumulating principle, and by stimulating individuals to maintain themselves. |
▪ II. accumulating, ppl. a.
(əˌkjuːmjʊleɪtɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Growing into a heap or stock; increasing.
| 1824 Southey Bk. of the Ch. I. 309 A large and accumulating fund of good works, which though supererogatory in the Saints were nevertheless not to be lost. |