Crescent, adj. increasing: “nature, c., doth not grow alone in thews and bulk,” Hml. I, 3, 11. “my powers are c., and my auguring hope says it will come to the full,” Ant. II, 1, 10. “he was then of a c. note,” Cymb. I, 4, 2.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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