▪ I. † exˈcresce, exˈcrease, n. Obs.
[f. next.]
A growing out; in quots. concr. excess amount, increase.
| 1707 Stewart Index to Scots Acts 14 (Jam.) The excresce of the excise or the inland salt and forraign commodities, etc. 17.. W. Forbes Suppl. Dec. 56 (Jam.) There happened in the coining sometimes an excresce on the tale, of five or six shillings or thereby, in one hundred pounds. |
▪ II. † exˈcresce, exˈcrease, v. Obs.
Also 6 Sc. excresse.
[ad. L. excrēscĕre: cf. increase.]
intr. To grow out or forth; to constitute an excrescence; to increase inordinately; to exceed what is usual.
| 1570 B. Googe Pop. Kingd. ii. (1880) 236 So hath this wretched kinde of men in little time excreast. 1588 A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. h vij, Quhilk [xi days] addit to yat ȝere quhairin it excresseis makis y⊇ same to exeid the common ȝere of y⊇ sone be 19 dayes. 1691 Ed. Taylor tr. Behmen's Theos. Philos. 71 The Pores..so numerous in the Skin, thro' which the Hairs excresce. |
Hence † exˈcreasing ppl. a.
| 1578 Banister Hist. Man 2 a, When a bone in any part, stretcheth forth his substance in excreasing maner. 1671 True Nonconf. 145 How this excresing power should have crept into the whole Church. |