increscere

increscere [CL; in p. ppl., ML] 1 (intr.) to grow, develop (also in fig. context); b (of sum of money or sim.) to grow, accrue. in quodam articulo pedis ejus pars unguis innascitur carni atque in contumeliam totius pedis vehementer ~it P. Blois Ep. 66. 197C; vide, inquam, si non in terra squaloris et solitudinis ipsorum ubertim ambitionis radices ~unt G. Hoyland Ascet. 277B.  b 1277 solvere ‥ expensas, interesse, et damna que increverint occasione predicte pecunie ‥ non solute Conc. II 31. 2 to increase in degree or strength, grow stronger: a (var.); b (of person or institution). a quo [dolore] mox ~ente Bede HE V 3 p. 285; cum adolescentiae vires increvissent Felix Guthl. 16; Dani sine obstaculo succrescere, dum ‥ provincialibus timor ~eret [unless referred to 5 infra; cf. ib. IV 356: Guiscardo aggrediendi magna increvit animus] W. Malm. GR II 120; episcoporum livor increverat volentium ‥ monachos ‥ extrudere Id. GP I 44 p. 71; vulgata sententia, mortuorum ~ere cruciatus et vivorum quos amaverunt cruciatibus Pull. Sent. 769C; ceperunt tenebre de facie mea rarescere et lux nova oriri et paulatim ~ere J. Ford Serm. 4. 4.  b [rex Kinnulfus] posteritati sue metuens, contra quam Kineardum ‥ ~ere cerneret, illum provincie terminos coegit excedere W. Malm. GR I 42 p. 42; increvit ‥ nostris diebus ‥ Malvernense monasterium Id. GP IV 158. 3 (trans.) to increase, enhance. c1380 Deus ‥ qui vos in consimillimo statu continuet et ~at FormOx 313. 4 (intr.) to grow in or upon, (of abstr.) to become established, habitual (in; cf. 3a supra). videbam ‥ quantum securitatis hominibus nostri temporis ‥ increverat Gildas EB 1; inolevit, increvit, informatur Gl. Leid. 1. 59; mos beato viro increverat noctibus ecclesias ‥ psalmorum excubiis frequentare W. Malm. Wulfst. I 4. 5 (p. ppl. incretus) ingrown, infixed, grown (in, upon), fixed or inhering (in; also in gl.). facilius videbatur digitos articulis suis dissolvi quam a colo vel fuso velud incretos expediri Gosc. Wulsin 15; illum [sc. aetherem] calor allevat, istum [sc. aerem] increta humori frigiditas gravat Adel. QN 62 (cf. ib. 63: [aer] si humore increto densitate corpulentus sit); incresco ‥, unde incretus, -a, -um et hoc incrementum Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 101. 6 f. l. †increscente [l. in crescente] ad homines luna vitae nobis activae, in reversa vero ad caelos speculativae typus ostenditur Bede TR 64 p. 289.