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/əkrˈiʃən/ Listen

noun

accretion n.

1.

The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.

2.

The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth. "A mineral... augments not by growth, but by accretion." "To strip off all the subordinate parts of his narrative as a later accretion."

3.

Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.

4.

A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.

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.

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"Accretion" Quotes from Famous Books

... parallels to Fisher's ghost, and very hard on psychical science it is that ghostly evidence should be deliberately burked through the prejudices of lawyers. Mr. Suttar, in his 'Australian Stories Retold' (Bathurst, 1887), remarks that the ghost is not a late mythical accretion in Fisher's story. 'I have the authority of a gentleman who was intimately connected with the gentleman who had the charge of the police when the murder was done, that Farley's story did suggest the search for the body in the creek.' But Mr. Suttar thinks ...

— The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories • Andrew Lang

... an assumption, which we find even in such learned writers as Harnack and Hatch, that the Hellenic element in Christianity is an accretion which transformed the new religion from its original purity and half-paganized Europe again. They would like to prove that underneath Catholicism was a primitive Protestantism, which owed nothing to Greece. The truth is that the Church was half Greek from the first, though, as I ...

— The Legacy of Greece • Various

... teacher's method must be one of accretion," said Carl Roeder, when interviewed between lesson hours in his delightful studio in Carnegie Hall. "He gains ideas from many methods and sources, and these he assimilates and makes practical for his work. At the same time he must ...

— Piano Mastery - Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers • Harriette Brower

... the history of David according to the simple thread of the old narrative. The first accretion we notice is the legend of the encounter of the shepherd boy with Goliath (xvii. 1-xviii. 5), which is involved in contradiction both with what goes before and with what follows it. According to xvi. 14-23, David, when he first came in contact with Saul, was no raw ...

— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen

... poet of Book IX.—one of "the latest expansions,"— thoroughly understands the legal and constitutional situation, as between Agamemnon and Achilles. Or rather all the poets who collaborated in Book IX., which "had grown by a process of accretion," [Footnote: Leaf, Iliad, vol. i. p. ...

— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang

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