accrease

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Old French acreistre, from Latin accrēscere, from ad- + crēscere (“to grow”). Doublet of accresce.

Verb

accrease (third-person singular simple present accreases, present participle accreasing, simple past and past participle accreased)

(obsolete) To increase.

Noun

accrease (plural accreases)

(obsolete) An increase.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.70:
  For then we shall have worke sufficient, without any more accrease.

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