per-crēbesco, bŭi, and per-cre-bresco, brui, 3,
v. inch. n. , to become very frequent or prevalent , to be spread abroad (class.): cum hoc percrebrescit, Cic. Att. 1, 1, 1: quae (opinio) apud exteras nationes omnium sermone percrebruit, id. Verr. 1, 1, 1; id. Div. in Caecil. 4, 12: res percrebuit; in ore atque sermone omnium coepit esse, id. Verr. 2, 2, 23, § 56: cum haec fama percrebuerit, id. ib. 2, 4, 30, § 68: fama percrebuit, id. ib. 2, 4, 43, § 94: quod cum percrebuisset, id. Off. 3, 14, 58; cf.: cum fama per orbem terrarum percrebuisset, illum a Caesare obsideri, Caes. B. C. 3, 43; cf. Plin. Pan. 31; Vulg. Judic. 16, 2: conjugia percrebruisse, Tac. A. 12, 6.