单词 | accresce |
释义 | accrescev. Chiefly Scottish (now rare). 1. a. intransitive. Chiefly with to in early use. To increase by accretion, grow up. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] forthwaxa900 wax971 growOE risec1175 anhigh1340 upwax1340 creasec1380 increasec1380 accreasea1382 augmenta1400 greata1400 mountc1400 morec1425 upgrowc1430 to run up1447 swell?c1450 add1533 accresce1535 gross1548 to get (a) head1577 amount1583 bolla1586 accrue1586 improve1638 aggrandize1647 accumulate1757 raise1761 heighten1803 replenish1814 to turn up1974 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 529 Malice and invy, With greit fervour accressand to sic feid. 1558 in A. I. Cameron Sc. Corr. Mary of Lorraine (1927) 415 The pane accrescis to me mair noysum nor it wes wont to do. 1604 A. Craig Poet. Ess. sig. E4 Hope accrescis with desire. 1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies ii. iii. 19 How little moates have accresced to Mountains. 1643 in J. H. Ramsay Bamff Charters (1915) 262 Quhilkis sowmes of money..hes now accrest and growne up to the sowme of tuentie thrie thousand..pundis. 1688 G. Sinclair Proteus bound with Chains 22 in Princ. Astron. & Navigation These Vapors..accresce to a considerable hight, perhaps 40 or 50 Mile above the Clouds. 1754 Monthly Rev. Sept. 182 The obliquity of the ecliptic..will therefore appear to vary, but not in a manner that will accresce and produce any sensible change in our seasons. 1979 C. McCarthy Suttree 262 Dark leachings from the city's undersides and speleothems accresced out of some grim slime quietly oozing in the dark. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] echeOE ekec1200 multiplya1275 morea1300 increase13.. vaunce1303 enlargec1380 augmenta1400 accrease1402 alargea1425 amply?a1425 great?1440 hainc1440 creasec1475 grow1481 amplea1500 to get upa1500 improve1509 ampliatea1513 auge1542 over1546 amplify1549 raise1583 grand1602 swell1602 magnoperate1610 greaten1613 accresce1626 aggrandize1638 majoratea1651 adauge1657 protend1659 reinforce1660 examplify1677 pluralize1750 to drive up1817 to whoop up1856 to jack up1884 upbuild1890 steepen1909 up1934 1626 in P. J. Anderson Fasti Acad. Mariscallanae Aberdonensis (1889) I. 143 The moneyes..ar accresced to ten thousand merkes. 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 156 Having repaired to the great City of Vienne, to accresce his reputation in some more degrees. 2. intransitive. To come by way of an addition or increase, to accrue. Chiefly of a failed share (Law, chiefly and now only Scots Law): to pass to others (esp. co-legatees), augmenting their shares (see accretion n. 5). Chiefly with to. ΚΠ 1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xiv. 69 Sampsonis strength to him accrest. 1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Putagium Her pairt of the heritage..accrescis and perteinis to the rest of the co-heirs. 1634–46 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 84 Prebendaries founded upon tithes to accress to the ministers liveing, and the rest for schoolls. 1661 Laws & Acts 1st Parl. Chas. II. of Scotl. 3 Considering the great advantages [that] do accress to the publick good of His Subjects, by the due observance of such ancient and well grounded Customs and Constitutions. a1685 Househ. Charles II in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 378 [It] accresses only to theire chamber keeper, to the ruyne of the waiters table. 1753 Trial J. Stewart 161 These lands were the best farms on the estate, and most of the benefits accresced from them. 1791 Ld. Kames Dict. Decis. (ed. 2) I. 291 In a question, how far a reserved faculty..accresced to a creditor whose debt was contracted before that faculty? 1844 C. Forsyth Princ. & Pract. Law of Trusts in Scotl. iii. ii. 364 The share of the child or children so predeceasing should fall and accresce to the survivor or survivors in equal portions. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 144 The share of any one who fails accresces to his co-legatee. 1905 Scots Digest 2 2089/1 One of the daughters having predeceased her mother..her share of the fee did not accresce to her two surviving sisters. 1991 Baird's Executors v Inland Revenue Commissioners: S.L.T. (Lands Tr.) 9 The question now raised is whether his interest thereupon accresced to his father or, being only in a separate one-half share, could have passed under the general residue clause of his will to his widow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1535 |
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