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LNS

accrescō, accrescere, accrēvī, accrētus

adcrescō, adcrescere, adcrēvī, adcrētus

ad, cresco

verb (3^rd conjugation)

to grow, to become larger by growth, to increase
To be added to by way of increase or augmentation, to be joined or annexed to
to fall to one

Abbreviations

ac-cresco (adc.), ēvi, ētum, 3, v. n., to grow, to become larger by growth, to increase. Lit.: nobis jam paulatim adcrescere puer incipiat, Quint. 1, 2, 1; so, adcrescens imperator, Amm. 27, 6, 13: eruca, Plin. 11, 32, 37; ib. 35, 41: flumen subito, Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 97; so, nondum adcrescente unda, Tac. A. 2, 8: caespes jam pectori usque adcreverat, id. ib. 1, 19.

—Part.: adcretus, in pass. sense, wrapped up, Plin. 11, 32, 37.

— Of abstract subjects: valetudo decrescit, adcrescit labor, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 4: amicitiam, quae incepta a parvis cum aetate adcrevit simul, Ter. And. 3, 3, 7: dolores, Nep. Att. 21, 4: invidia, Hor. S. 1, 6, 26: magnum facinus, Sen. Ben. 1, 10, 4.

— Transf., in gen. To be added to by way of increase or augmentation, to be joined or annexed to: si decem jugera (agri) alluvione adcreverint, Dig. 19, 1, 13, § 14: veteribus negotiis nova adcrescunt, Plin. Ep. 2, 8, 3: sibi adcrescere putat, quod cuique adstruatur, id. Pan. 62, 8: trimetris adcrescere jussit nomen iambeis, Hor. A. P. 252: cum dictis factisque omnibus vana accresceret fides, Liv. 1, 54, 2.

—Hence, Jurid. t. t., to fall to one, as an increase of his property, Gai. 2, 199; Dig. 12, 4, 12 al.: jus adcrescendi, the right of increase, Gai. 2, 126; Dig. 7, 2, 1, § 3 al.