crescive

English

Etymology

From Latin crēscere (“to increase”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛsɪv

Adjective

crescive (comparative more crescive, superlative most crescive)

1. (archaic) Increasing or growing; marked by gradual spontaneous development.

   And so the prince obscured his contemplation

   Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,

   Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,

   Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.

   Shakespeare, Henry V

References

• “crescive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• cervices, crevices