Definition for IN-CREASE'

IN-CREASE', n.

  1. Augmentation; a growing larger; extension. Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end. Is. ix.
  2. Increment; profit; interest; that which is added to the original stock. Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God. Lev. xxv.
  3. Produce, as of land. Then shall the earth yield her increase. Ps. lxvii.
  4. Progeny; issue; offspring. All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. 1 Sam. ii.
  5. Generation. Shak.
  6. The waxing of the moon; the augmentation of the luminous part of the moon, presented to the inhabitants of the earth. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges and herbs will grow soonest, if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon.
  7. Augmentation of strength or violence; as, increase of heat, love or other passion; increase of force.
  8. Augmentation of degree; as, increase of happiness or misery.

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