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To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease. The waters increased and bare up the ark. Gen. vii. 17. He must increase, but I must decrease. John iii. 30. The heavens forbid But that our loves…

Full of increase; abundant in produce. "Increaseful crops." [R.] Shak.

Increase. [R.] Bacon.

One who, or that, increases.

More and more.

To create within. [R.]

Uncreated; self-existent. [R.] Bright effincreate. Milton.

The quality or state of being incredible; incredibleness. Dryden.

Not credible; surpassing belief; too extraordinary and improbable to admit of belief; unlikely; marvelous; fabulous. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead Acts xxvi. 8.

Incredibility.

In an incredible manner.

Uncredited. [Obs.]

The state or quality of being i Of every species of incredulity, religious unbelief is the most irrational. Buckminster.

Not credulous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving. Bacon. A fantastical incredulous fool. Bp. Wilkins.

In an incredulous manner; with incredulity.

Incredulity.

Incapable of being burnt; incombustibe. Sir T. Browne.

To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate.

Burning; esp., the act of burning a dead body; cremation.

The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement. The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. Woodward. A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than its…