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Mentioned before; already cited; aforementioned. Addison.

Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.

Strange; foreign. [Old Eng. & Scot.] Chaucer.

Becoming murmurous, roaring. "Fremescent clangor." Carlyle. -- Fre*mes"cence (#), n.

Act of making gestures; gesturing. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The act iif immuring, or the state of being immured; imprsonment.

; 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 itself. Coleridge.

Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.

Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.

Admitting no return; as, an irremeable way. [Obs.] Dryden.

Not to be remedied, corrected, or redressed; incurable; as, an irremediable disease or evil.

The state or quality of being irremediable.

In a manner, or to a degree, that precludes remedy, cure, or correction.

Cultivation. [Obs.] W. Wotton.

The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.

Wrong measurement.

To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.

One of the Monotremata.

The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured; obscuration. Pomfret.

See Parament. [Obs.]