These were the facts which really suggested his theory of the 'excrescent' population, produced by the over-speculation of capitalists. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
Scot actively engaged in parochial work, had his attention fixed upon the reckless improvidence of the 'excrescent' population, and welcomed. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
Miss Kimpsey's own parlor was excrescent with bows and draperies. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
You are regarded an excrescent growth on the body of civil society. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
The Latin element, afterwards engrafted, is exotic, excrescent, and not vital to the organization. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
He was aided and abetted in this essential side of the supreme crime by the excrescent ‘ Lord Haw Haw’ Andrew Sullivan. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » And In This Corner…Juan Cole] Reference
So you're probably looking at the name actually being Pikni, with the excrescent vowel inserted between the two parts to help it conform to custom. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BIKINI.] Reference
Other chapels, less distinguished, which have been added from time to time, line the nave both north and south, and all are excrescent to the original plan. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
Note decisions 5 and 6 to the same Law, the former showing a similar application of the "rule" and the latter showing that who clauses escape the excrescent commas:Decision 5. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: WHICH-HUNTING AT FIFA.] Reference
The front door and the overhanging roof are just as in the time of the witches, and from a recessed area at the back, narrow casements and excrescent stairways are still to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference
It's the modern form (with an excrescent, or epenthetic, -s- from somewhere or other, perhaps harvest) of the Old English ofet 'fruit' (spelled obet in early glosses), which is related to German Obst. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: OVEST.] Reference
She has been flanked on policing issues by Greenwood-Aurora Involved Neighbors (GAIN), who stepped up the heat a degree or two after seeing a big spillover of crime from the excrescent Aurora Avenue North vice strip into their residential neighborhoods to the west, and after documenting types of crime, locations and slow or non-existent police response. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Pressure Building For More Seattle Cops] Reference
The final - p of Crump is excrescent (Chapter III). From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
An excrescent b, as in chimbley and fambly, seems to be native. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 10. Vulgar Pronunciation] Reference
(Chapter XIX) is perhaps sometimes the same name with excrescent - d. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
The echinopses were mere excrescent red-haired growths that made one think of huge insects rolled into balls. From Wordnik.com. [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference
Simmonds might come from Sigemund, but is more likely from Simon with excrescent - d (Epithesis, Chapter III). From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
The mountains are rounded in outline, very massive, with small excrescent peaks and undeveloped 'cwms' (T. + 18°). From Wordnik.com. [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference
The loaves were firsts, no common stuff, and therewithal remainders from the new moon; vegetables both radical and excrescent. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
Dee may be for Day as Deakin is for Dakin, i.e. David, Derwent looks like Darwin (Chapter VII) or the local Darwen with excrescent - t. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
· Powerful Video editing, the DVD Ripper allow you to trim the excrescent or special parts of movies, adjust brightness, contrast, audio, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
Injuries so compound confounded the Captain, who sorrowed to see a creature so charming, at once deformed by a crooked back and an excrescent shoulder. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference
An excrescent t survives in a number of words, e. g., onct, twict, clost, wisht (for wish) and chanct; it is an heirloom from the English of two centuries ago. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 10. Vulgar Pronunciation] Reference
The paupers of Glasgow were 'excrescent,' and the 'gluts' were visible in the commercial crises which had thrown numbers of poor weavers out of employment and degraded them into permanent paupers. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
Out of this lifeless mass has already grown an excrescent power, which tends to realize all the dangers that can be apprehended from a defective construction of the supreme government of the Union. From Wordnik.com. [The Federalist Papers] Reference
But Villazón's fundamental miscalculation is cramming in so much excrescent detail that the opera's basic power as a realistic romantic-melodrama on the theme of The Love That Can Never Be is negated and obscured. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Page 172 shewing large, beautiful and expansive white fragrant blossoms, and great heavy cones on slender procumbent branches, some even lying on the earth; the ravages of fire keep them down, as is evident from the vast excrescent tuberous roots, covering several feet of ground, from which these slender shoots spring. From Wordnik.com. [Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.] Reference
1. I'm willing to bet that the second i' in Pikinni/bikini is actually just an excrescent vowel. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BIKINI.] Reference
The excrescent pile on one, peeling it off. From Wordnik.com. [Inferno [Hell]. Canto XXV] Reference
Could I prune away certain excrescent minor. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
Expunge the whole, or lop th 'excrescent parts. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Man] Reference
Expunge the whole, or lop th excrescent parts. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Man. Epistle II-Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to Himself, as an Individual] Reference
Th 'excrescent pile on one, peeling it off. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference
Insistent as our transatlantic cousins are on writing arbour, armour, clamour, clangour, colour, dolour, flavour, honour, humour, labour, odour, rancour, rigour, savour, valour, vapour and vigour, and most unpleasant as they find the omission of the excrescent u in any of these words, they nevertheless make no scruple of writing the derivatives in the American wayarboreal, armory, clamorous, clangorous, colorific, dolorous, flavorous, honorary, humorous, laborious, odorous, rancorous, rigorous, savory, valorous, vaporize and vigorousnot inserting the u in the second syllable of any one of these words. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8. American Spelling. 1. The Two Orthographies] Reference
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