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ac*cre"tion (ăk*kr&ē;"shŭn), n. [L. accretio, fr. accrescere to increase. Cf. Crescent, Increase, Accrue.]
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1. The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth. Arbuthnot.
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2. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.
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A mineral . . . augments not by growth, but by accretion. Owen.
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To strip off all the subordinate parts of his narrative as a later accretion. Sir G. C. Lewis.
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3. Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.
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4. A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes. Dana.
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5. (Law) (a) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or soil from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark. (b) Gain to an heir or legatee, by failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share. Wharton. Kent.
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