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crescive

[ kres-iv ]

adjective

  1. increasing; growing.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of crescive1

1560–70; < Latin ŧ ( ere ) to increase + -ive
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Changes in industrial conditions defeated his intentions with respect to artificers, and the Philadelphia fund proved far less crescive than the Boston one, but both have proved enough so to illustrate the procreative quality of money upon which Franklin was so fond of dilating.

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Its constitution has none of the fatal marks of completeness which her other republican constitutions have borne; on the contrary, there never was a period in modern times when to the outsider French institutions seemed as crescive as they do to-day.

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Grew like the summer Grass, fastest by night, Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.

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Finger with finger wreathes; we love, and gape, Fantastic shape to mazed fantastic shape, Straggling, irregular, perplexed, embossed, Grotesquely twined, extravagantly lost By crescive paths and strange protuberant ways From sanity and from wholeness and from grace.

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The strawberry grows underneath the nettle,      And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best      Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality:      And so the prince obscur'd his contemplation      Under the veil of wildness, which no doubt      Grew like the summer-grass, fastest by night,      Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.

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