Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To increase.
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- verb obsolete To
increase . - noun obsolete An
increase .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For then we shall have worke sufficient, without any more accrease.
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In this noble commerce, offices and benefits (nurses of other amities) deserve not so much as to bee accounted of: this confusion so full of our wills is cause of it: for even as the friendship I beare unto my selfe, admits no accrease, [Footnote: Increase.] by any succour I give my selfe in any time of need, whatsoever the
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562
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For then we shall have worke sufficient, without any more accrease.
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562
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Cottle's takes the honors I have been udderly delected by the assay on Malatropisms in the currant VERBOTIN and am confidential that such articulates would do much to accrease the cirularity of your readership.
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