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Definition of Excrescent

Excrescent
Excrescent Ex*cres"cent, a. [L. excresens, -entis, p. pr. of excrescere to grow out; ex out + crescere to grow. See Crescent.] Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity. Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts. --Pope. Excrescent letter (Philol.), a letter which has been added to a root; as, the d in alder (AS. alr) is an excrescent letter.

Meaning of Excrescent from wikipedia

- Look up excrescence in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Excrescence may refer to: Excrescence (phonology), the addition of a consonant to a word In medicine...
- Malay Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL 15). Gil, D. & McKinnon, T. (2015). Excrescent Nasals in Malayic Dialects of Western Sumatra. Paper presented at the...
- Jarawa dag, Onge dage 'coconut'. Historically these vowels must have been excrescent, as nonetymological word-final e doesn't surface when number markers are...
- "Hawkin's son") (or else it is Hawkin used as a surname with a later excrescent -s in the early modern period to bring it into line with the predominant...
- ‘to smell’. However, long nasal vowels such as /ãː/ may occur with an excrescent [ŋ] as in [ãŋ]. Syllabic /m n/ also occur, as in /n̩.nā/ nna. Nasals such...
- et dies proxime præcedens pro unico dii, so as in com****tion that day excrescent is not accounted. Replacement (by 29 February) of the awkward practice...
- from an agent noun based on Middle Low German pōl ‘(muddy) pool’, with excrescent initial -s. The suffix "-stra" is derived from old Germanic -sater, meaning...
- referential suffix i 'to' (forced morphophonemically to change to e) with excrescent consonant n, and suffix ñaihon 'a short amount of time'. Thus Masanganenñaihon...
- hiNmagarowa "to bend." Gemination of s: When an s or sj is made geminate, an excrescent [t] causes it to become Qc [tt͡s] or Qcj [tt͡ɕ], respectively—for example...
- surname is likely a variant of Grave with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname Grave seems to have its possible origins in: 1. "Occupational...