Obs.; also 5 acrese, 6–7 accress(e, 6 accreace. [a. OFr. accreistre, accreiss-ant:—L. accrēsc-ĕre, f. ac- = ad- to + crēsc-ĕre to grow. See also ACCRESCE, later, f. L. In sense 2, probably for earlier encrese, INCREASE; see A- pref. 10.]
† 1. intr. To increase or grow by addition. Obs.
1535. W. Stewart, Cron. Scotl., II. 529. Malice and invy, With greit fervour accressand to sic feid.
1598. Florio, Accrescere, to increase, to accrease, to add vnto, to augment, to growe, to multiplie, to spring, to accrew, to eeke.
1635. D. Person, Varieties, I. § 6. 24. Such as aske, why the sea doth never debord nor accreace a whit, notwithstanding that all other waters doe degorge themselves into her bosome.
2. trans. To increase. Obs.
1401. Pol. Poems, II. 105 (1859). Mo fyngris on myn hond than foure and the thombe amenusith my worching more than it acresith.
