accretions

• Around these doctrines there grew, in time, a body of traditions, customs, new dogmas, and fantasies; and the duty of belief in the first was extended to cover the whole system, the central jewel as well as the accretions and encrustations of time. —  Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work
• Forecasters are warning of the potential for significant ice accretions -- the main culprit in wintertime power outages -- throughout most of Wednesday. —  Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news
• But it was necessary to refer to it in order both to show how the growth of the Romish Doctrine of Purgatory gradually gathered round it mischievous accretions, and also to prove how little the belief, that in the Intermediate State there is a progressive advance of the soul in holiness towards perfection, is like the Romish teaching and practice But it would be an act of disloyalty to the truth, and of cowardice into the bargain, if we should abandon or minimize a truth because it has been by some corrupted and perverted. —  The Life of the Waiting Soul in the Intermediate State
• The aggregated wealth of the institution, if the accretions were continuous, would now be $25,165,824,000,000. —  Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
• A usurer in any community in one life comes to absorb the wealth of that community, though the amount loaned at the beginning was small The accretions are the irresistible result of the principle of usury The wealth is more and more centralized as the years pass. —  Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View

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