excrescential

English

Adjective

excrescential (comparative more excrescential, superlative most excrescential)

  1. 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, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1870, OCLC 3526454:
      The vestry, I think, occupies that excrescential edifice which I noticed yesterday as having grown out of the cathedral.

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(See the entry for excrescential in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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