a. [f. L. accrēt-, ppl. stem of accrēscĕre (see ACCRESCE) + -IVE, as if ad. L. *accrētīvus.] Belonging to accretion or continuous growth.
1665. Glanville, Scepsis Sci., ix. 81. We can no more discern their accretive motion, than we can their most hidden cause. Ibid., xi. 60. We have no sense of the accretive motion of Plants or Animals.
