crescive
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin crēscere (“to increase”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Adjective
[edit]crescive (comparative more crescive, superlative most crescive)
- (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
[edit]- “crescive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.