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:

     The vestry, I think, occupies that excrescential edifice which I noticed yesterday as having grown out of the cathedral.

   • 1910, George Bernard Shaw, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets:

     His ugliness was not unamiable: it was accidental, external, excrescential.

   • 1996, David H. Lane, The Phenomenon of Teilhard:

     excrescential thinking patterns

References

• “excrescential”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• central excise