rare. [f. L. excrēt- ppl. stem of excrēscĕre: see EXCRETION2 and -ITIOUS.] Of the nature of an outgrowth.
1820–7. Bentham, Wks. (1843), II. 82. An excretitious suit is a suit which has grown out of a former one. Ibid., VI. 379. This excretitious crime.
