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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Showing a progressively larger lighted surface; waxing: the increscent moon.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling: specifically applied to the moon.

Wiktionary

  1. n. heraldry A crescent oriented with horns turned to dexter (pointing left).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging.
  2. adj. (Her.) Increasing; on the increase; -- said of the moon represented as the new moon, with the points turned toward the dexter side.

Etymologies

  1. C 1675, from Latin increscens, present participle of increscere (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin incrēscēns, incrēscent-, present participle of incrēscere, to increase; see increase. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “For I assure you that the horror I then conceived for those pale botanical specimens in their pestiferous and increscent abundance, exceeded what words can describe.”

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  1. increasing
  1. growing
  1. augmenting
  1. swelling
  1. enlarging

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  1. decrescent

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