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Accretive

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Accre'tive. adj. [from accretion.] Growing; that which by growth is added.

If the motion be very slow, we perceive it not: we have no sense of the accretive motion of plants and animals: and the sly shadow steals away upon the dial; and the quickest eye can discover no more but that it is gone. Glanv. Scepsis Scient.

Sources: Glanvill, Joseph (53)

Attributes: Adjective (426)

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