INCRESCENT

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging. Between the incresent and decrescent moon. Tennyson.

2.
a.

Increasing; on the increase; -- said of the moon represented as the new moon, with the points turned toward the dexter side.


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