crescive
English
Etymology
From Latin crēscere (“to increase”).
Adjective
crescive (comparative more crescive, superlative most crescive)
- (archaic) Increasing or growing; marked by gradual spontaneous development.
- And so the prince obscured his contemplation
- Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,
- Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,
- Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.
- Shakespeare, Henry V
References
- crescive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- cervices, crevices