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|lshtext=<b>ac-cresco</b>: (adc.), ēvi, ētum, 3, v. n.,<br /><b>I</b> to [[grow]], to [[become]] larger by [[growth]], to [[increase]].<br /><b>I</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> 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.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., in gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> 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,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> 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.
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