phenomenonWaxingCosmosThe moon’s growing lit portion from new toward full. Not waning, and not crescent as a shape alone.Waxing is used in Medicine.Pliny’s Natural History treats the waxing moon among phase speech for timing. A named waxing growth in that encyclopedia, not waning and not full-moon.from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CEused in · sourced · documentedsourcesNatural History · Pliny the ElderPliny, Naturalis Historia.