accrease
An increase.
Noun
- An increase.
- For then we shal have worke sufficient, without any more accrease. - 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 34:
Origin
From Middle English acresen, accreesen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French acreistre, from Latin accrēscere, from ad- + crēscere (“to grow”). Doublet of accresce.
Forms
Verb
- To increase.