accrew

accrew

English

Verb

accrew (third-person singular simple present accrews, present participle accrewing, simple past and past participle accrewed)

1. Archaic form of accrue.
   • 1709, John Dryden, "Lucretius: A Poem against the Fear of Death" (lines 26-29), published in a pamphlet of the same name with an Ode in Memory of Mrs. Ann Killebrew:

     We, who are dead and gone, shall bear no Part,

     In all the Pleasures, no shall we feel the smart,

     Which to that other Mortal shall accrew,

     Whom of our Matter Time shall mould anew.