Cumulative

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; agregated. "As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, njt original." Bacon

2. Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds. The argument . . . is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative. Trench.

3. Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.

4. Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy. Bouvier. Wharton.