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▪ I. accrete, v.|əˈkriːt|
[f. L. accrēt-, ppl. stem of accrēsc-ĕre; see accresce.]
1. intr. To grow together by adhesion, to combine.
1784J. Twamley Dairying 175 How the different parts accrete to bring on Fermentation, or cause the Intestine motion excited in Vegetables. 1875Whitney Life of Lang. xii. 248 The variously accreted formative elements.
2. intr. To grow to, adhere, attach itself to.
1869Spectator 1 May 532 An instrument of power too long neglected and disused, the loyalty which accretes to the impartial, impassive, all-protecting State. 1880Ibid. 3 Jan. 11/2 In this country, popularity, no less than power, tends to accrete to the old.
3. a. trans. To cause (a thing) to grow or unite to.
1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue vii. 262 We must assume that the reader has thoroughly accreted and assimilated this distinction to his habits of mind. 1881Myers Wordsworth 95 Its arguments and theories have lain long in Wordsworth's mind, and have accreted to themselves a rich investiture of observation and feeling.
b. To draw or attract to oneself or itself. Hence aˈccreted ppl. a.
1901H. B. George Relat. Geogr. & Hist. 260 It became the seat of one of the small principalities which happened to accrete other dominions. 1914G. B. Shaw Common Sense about War 11 He, too, accreted fools and knaves, and ended defeated in St. Helena. 1921Chambers's Jrnl. 10 Sept. 648/1 The accreted and reclaimed land.
▪ II. accrete, ppl. a.|əˈkriːt|
[ad. L. accrēt-us, pa. pple. of accrēscĕre; see accresce.]
1. Formed by accretion; made up, factitious.
1824Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 I. xxvii. 152 Milton is no factitious or accrete man; no pleader, no rhetorician. 1859Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. V. 411/1 Masses of accrete..colouring matter.
2. Bot. Grown together by adhesion of external parts; said of organs normally separate.
1847Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 379, Accrete; fastened to another body, and growing with it (De Cand.). 1880A. Gray Bot. Text-Bk. 393, Accrete, Grown together, consolidated with some contiguous body. |