1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Recroist, a reincrease; a new..growth.

1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) xii. 204 In some of the other Provinces of New Spaine,..they pluck out their Beard, anointing their Chin with a certaine Liquor, which prohibits this re-encrease of the Beard.

1700 E. Ward Dancing School 10 I..could foresee no other measures to prevent the re-encrease, or check the violence of my Flame.

1889 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 2 501 He would not reduce so rapidly as to produce complete insomnia, and would allow a re-increase of dose when neuralgias, migraine, etc., appear.

1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 969/1 Very good sights under very good conditions may follow a dimmer path of light along the whole ecliptic, with a slight reincrease in the antisolar region, which Alexander von Humboldt named the Gegenschein.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iv. f. 20^v That they myght..apply them selues to reincrease the fruites of theyr countrey.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. vi. sig. Dd7 When they did perceaue Their wounds recur'd, and forces reincreast . View more context for this quotation

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Recroistre, to reincrease; to grow, or spring vp, againe.

1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus iii. 18 A copious (plentiful) afflux of good blood, whereby the preceeding diminish'd parts happen to re-increase.

1736 ‘A.M.’ Proposal raising Yearly Revenue 3 When the Use of wholsome brew'd Malt Liquors is revived, and the diminished Revenue thereof re-increased thereby, the said Stamp Duty will be a Fund in Reserve.

1847 O. S. Fowler Hereditary Descent (Stereotype ed.) 273 The mere marriage of the long-lived with the long-lived will increase and re-increase the age of every succeeding generation.

1868 Jrnl. Anthropol. Soc. 6 clxiii All the children are married except one, and reincreasing and multiplying almost equal to their parents.

1918 L. M. Turner tr. C. Cestre France, Eng. & European Democracy 1215–1915 iv. 92 A nation intent upon increasing and reincreasing its armies.

1968 A. Etzioni Active Society xx. 611 Both the United States and Russia have re-increased their military budgets with the escalation of the war in Vietnam in 1965.

2002 P. Lavie et al. Sleep Disorders i. 7 This theory is supported by the findings that during wakefulness the levels of energy in the brain decrease (ATP, glycogen, adenosine), and re-increase during sleep.