accrease
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English acresen, accreesen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French acreistre, from Latin accrēscere, from ad- + crēscere (“to grow”). Doublet of accresce.
Verb
[edit]accrease (third-person singular simple present accreases, present participle accreasing, simple past and past participle accreased)
- (chiefly Early Modern, obsolete) To increase.
Noun
[edit]accrease (plural accreases)
- (Early Modern, obsolete) An increase.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 34:
- For then we shal have worke sufficient, without any more accrease.
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