Adjective: crescive
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more crescive |
| Superlative | most crescive |
Sample Sentences
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And so the prince obscured his contemplation
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Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,
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Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,
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Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty. [1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]
Adjectives inflected like crescive
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin crēscere (“to increase”).