excrescential

comparative more excrescential · superlative most excrescential

1. Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.

   excrescential thinking patterns

   1996, David H. Lane, The Phenomenon of Teilhard

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

   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

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

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