Excresco, excrescis, excréui, excrêtum, pen. pro. excréscere. Col. To grow out: to grow much: to grow vp: to increase.Excrescítque indies eius rei luxus. Plin. The excesse thereof increaseth dailyIn altum excreuit. Lucan. It grew vp in height.In caput excrescere. Quint. to growe to a head.Excrescere in longitudinem. Plin.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ex-cresco, crēvi, crētum, 3, v. inch. n., to grow out or forth, to grow up, rise up (not ante-Aug.). I.Lit.A. In gen.: quae si satis excreverint (palmae), Col. 4, 21, 3: abies, larix, palma in longitudinem, Plin. 16, 30, 54, 125: lactucae ad semipedem, id. 19, 8, 39, 131: in omni domo nudi ac sordidi in hos artus, in haec corpora quae miramur excrescunt, Tac. G. 20; Aug. Serm. 216, 7: colles sensim excreverant rudere, Front. Aquaed. 18: solum tumulo in altum, Luc. 4, 11: si quando flumen imbribus ad tempus excrevit, is swollen, Dig. 43, 11, 1.—B. In partic., of morbid excrescences on the body: excreverat in dexteriore latere ejus caro, Suet. Galb. 21: carnis excrescentes, Plin. 23, 6, 59, 111: arsenicum tollit quicquid excrescit, id. 34, 18, 56, 178.—Hence, 2.Subst.: excre-scentia, ium, n., in medic. lang., morbid excrescences on the body, Plin. 20, 9, 36, 93; 22, 21, 29, 61; 24, 4, 5, 9; 24, 5, 11, 19; 34, 18, 50, 169 al.—II.Trop., to grow immoderately, to increase, enlarge: nec minus evitanda est immodica ejus prooemii longitudo, ne in caput excrevisse videatur, Quint. 4, 1, 62: fructus in tantum excrevit, ut, etc., Dig. 36, 1, 27, 16 fin.: litium series, Suet. Vesp. 10.—Hence, ex-crētus, a, um, P. a., grown up, fullgrown: animalia, Lact. 2, 11 med. al. (so, haedi, Verg. G. 3, 398, acc. to Serv., but v. excerno, II. A.).