Obs. [f. the vb.] Increase.
1598. Florio, Accrescimento, Encrease, accrease, profit, advancement, accrew, eeking. Ibid. (1603), Montaigne (1634), 93. The friendship I beare unto my selfe, admits no accrease, by any succour I give my selfe in any time of need. Ibid. (1632), I. xix. 34. For then we shall have worke sufficient, without any more accrease.
