Which preposition to use with accretion
Around this segregation accumulated accretions of opinion, layer on layer emanating from the mind of her mate.
My theory is that the mound was built by gradual accretion in the following manner: That when a death occurred a funeral pyre was erected on the mound, upon which the body was placed.
There are two senses in which we can understand an evolution of this idea of God; first, as Mr. Tylor understands it, in the sense of a development by accretion from a simple germ, from the idea of a phantasm nowise a god, to that of a spirit still lacking divinity, thence to that of a Supreme Spirit in whom first the essential definition of God is somewhat fulfilled.
EXOGENS, the name for the order of plants whose stem is formed by successive accretions to the outside of the wood under the bark.