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▪ I. † accrue, n. Obs.|əˈkruː|
Also 6–7 accrewe.
[a. Fr. accrue, OFr. acreue, acrewe growth, increase, orig. pa. pple. of ac-croître, OFr. acreistre:—L. accrēscĕre: see accrease.]
1. Accession, reinforcement. (Cf. crew.)
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1135/1 The towne of Calis and the forts thereabouts were not supplied with anie new accrewes of soldiors. 1630M. Godwyn Annals Eng. iii. 283 Should be able..to oppose the French by the accrue of Scotland. 1641Pref. to Cheke's Hurt of Sedition, c 2 This accrue of honour to her sonne made his learned mother the Vniversity a suiter to him.
2. Advantage accruing.
1625Sir H. Finch Law To Reader (1636) Witnesse the very phrase, the termes of Art, excluding all hope of accrue to Lay-conceited opinions.
3. A stitch increasing the size of network.
1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Casting-net, As you work, cast some Accrues from six Meshes to six Meshes, even to the second Range from the Lever, and make the third without Accrues; then cast the Accrues again to the fourth Range, and work the fifth without Accrues, and do so by all the rest, until the Net is eight or nine Foot in Heighth.
▪ II. accrue, v.|əˈkruː|
Also 5 acrewe, 6–7 accrew.
[App. f. the n. in early sense of OFr. acrewe ‘that which grows up, to the profit of the owner, on the earth or in a wood,’ though early instances of this in Eng. are wanting. It translates L. accrēscĕre and OFr. acreistre in the law-books.]
1. To fall (to any one) as a natural growth or increment; to come by way of addition or increase, or as an accession or advantage. Const. unto, to.
1470Harding Chron. Proem. xii. 7 So by your mother the right to you acrewes. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Ded., That, by the basenes of such parts, more excellencie may accrew to the principall. 1602Warner Albion's Eng. (1612) ix. xlv. 213 To him by law-Descents, the Scepter did accrew. 1622Heylyn Cosmogr. (1682) i. 140 Such lesser parcels and additaments, as have accrewed to their Estate. 1622R. Callis On Stat. Sewers (1647) 30 Lands left to the shore by great quantities..accrew wholly to the King. 1642Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. 59 There are, I confess, some new additions, yet small to those which accrew to our Adversaries. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 234 More Proselites and Converts use t'accrue To false Persuasions, than the right and true. 1691Ray Wisd. God (1714) 204 Several advantages which accrue to us. 1768Blackstone Comm. II. 269 The forfeiture for such alienations accrued in the first place to the immediate lord of the fee. 1856Miss Muloch John Halifax (ed. 17) 223 Pay over to your order all moneys, principal and interest, accruing to her.
2. To arise or spring as a natural growth or result. Const. from (by, of obs.). Esp. of interest: To grow or arise as the produce of money invested.
1589Horsey Trav. App. 302 (1857) The costomes that acrewe by traffycke manye kyndes of wayes. 1592W. West Symbolæogr. i. i. §21 B, Obligations accrewing of these are said to bee contracted by consent. c1620H. Anderson Law of Christ in Farr S.P. 306 From innocence a native joy accrues. 1635Quarles Emblems (1718) i. i. 6 What danger can accrue from such blest food. 1672–5T. Comber Comp. Temple (1702) 202 The comfort and credit that will accrue from such admissions. 1710Prideaux Orig. Tithes ii. 34 A Divine Right is that which accrueth from a Divine Law. 1766[C. Anstey] New Bath Guide xv. 66 Do the Ills of Mankind from Religion accrue? 1774Bryant Mythol. I. 14 Great light..will accrue from examining this abuse. 1852McCulloch Taxation iii. ii. 451 Interest begins to accrue from the moment that the loan is bargained for.
†3. To grow, grow up. Obs. (See accresce.)
1604C. Edmonds Cæsars Com. 116 They would haue accrewed to such a multitude of people, as could not haue bene contained within the rules of gouernement. 1612Warner Albion's Eng. ii. xi. 50 But sight and talke accrew to loue. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Is. i. i. 1. The world more aged by new youths accrewing. 1682Glanville Saducismus (ed. 2) i. 126 Body is a substance material coalescent or accruing together into one.
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†a. trans. To gather up, collect. Obs.
1594R. C[arew] Huarte's Trial of Wits (1596) i. 7 When our nature hath accrued al the forces that she can haue. Ibid. iv. 41 A man..at one instant..accrues more wit and abilitie than he had before. 1665Manley Grotius's Low-Countrey-Warrs 656 The United States, to whom but newly redeem'd from Servitude was accrewed an Ample Dominion. [The last example is perhaps intr. Cf. the sun was risen.]
b. More recently, to gain by increment, to accumulate.
1929F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 1 Accrue chocolate, to, in the Navy, to make oneself popular with the officers. 1961in Webster. 1975Facts on File 1 Nov. 800/1 Officials said that at the end of May, $589.5 million, or 70% of the trust's total loans and investments, were not accruing interest. 1980K. Crossley-Holland Norse Myths p. xvii, It was only as the monarchy accrued greater power and significance that it became hereditary. |