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.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     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.

Derived terms

• crescively

 

References

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

Anagrams

• cervices, crevices