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, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ. Nascent passions and anxieties. Berkley.

Growing black; changing to a black color; approaching to blackness. Johnson.

Going out of use; becoming obsolete; passing into desuetude.

Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.

To exceed in odor. Fuller.

Scented excessively.

Containing or producing pap; like pap. [R.] Arbuthnot.

Petrifying; converting into stone; as, petrescent water. Boyle.

A phosphorescent substance.

Luminescent by exposure to light waves. -- Pho`to*lu`mi*nes"cence (#), n.

Arrived at puberty. That . . . the men (are) pubescent at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth. Sir T. Browne.

Becoming putrid or rotten. Externally powerful, although putrescent at the core. Motley.

Acute of smell.

Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; as, a quiescent body or fluid.

In a quiescent manner.

Becoming rancid or sour.

A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity. Cowper.

Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic.

Becoming, or causing to become, rejuvenated; rejuvenating.

ng. Some other of existence of which we have been previously conscious, and are now reminiscent. Sir W. Hamilton.