To growe: to ware bigger: to increase in honour or riches. Crescere & Decrescere, contraria. Cic. Lacte crescunt infantes. Ouid. Children are nourished with milke. In domo alicuius creuisse. Suet. To haue bene brought vp in ones house. De tenui origine crescere. Ouid. Of lowe beginning to become great or noble. Crescere ad plenitudinem & in longitudinem. Plin. Moles maris in astra crescit. Lucan. Swelleth vp to. Crescere in altitudinem. Liu. To grow in height. In immensum crescere. Ouid. To ware beyond all measure great. Immensum crescere. Ouid. Idem. Crescere in latitudinem. Colum. To grow in breadth. In mores patrios crescere. Stat. To increase, following the maners of his countrey. Crescere in multas opes. Liu. To grow to great riches. Crescere in aduncos vngues. Ouid. In vnum crescere. Catul. Paulatim crescere. Lucret. Æquor crescit aquis. Lucan. The sea swelleth. Amor crescit. Stat. Audacia creuit. Ouid. Baiba crescit. Lucret. Cupido furiosa opum creuit. Ouid. Labor crescit. Sil. Mœnia crescunt. Ouid. The walles rise in heigth or are builded vp higher. Mea nomina crescunt. Ouid. Crescebat in eos odium. Cic. Opes creuerunt. Ouid. Crescit amor numml, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit. Iuue. Seditio crescit. Ouid. Strages in cumulum crescunt. Claud. Virtus animo crescit. Claud. Vis animi pariter crescit cum corpore. Lucret. Voluptas crescit. Senec. Auditæ crescunt in pectore voces. Val. Flac. Crescere, pro Honoratiorem & ornatiorem fieri, vel etiã Direscere. Cic. To increase in riches or honour: to ware more riche. Crescere vult. Cic. He will be promoted or aduaunced: be wil come to promotion. Factis alicuius crescere. Claud. To become more honourable by another mans deedes. Crescere ex accusatione aliquorum. Cic. To come to riches or promotion by accusing of other. Crescere de re aliqua. Cic. Crescit in dies singulos hostium numerus. Is augmented. Creuerunt animi. Cic. They tooke better heart or courage: or they wared high minded by reason of riches. Crescit mihi materies scribendi. Cic.

I. Orig., of things not previously in existence, to come forth, grow, to arise, spring, be born, become visible, appear (so mostly poet.)

A. Lit.: cetera, quae sursum crescunt sursumque creantur, Lucr. 6, 527: quaecumque e terrā corpora crescunt (for which, subsequently, exoriuntur), id. 1, 868: corpore de patrio ac materno sanguine crescunt, id. 4, 1210: hic et acanthus Et rosa crescit, Verg. Cul. 397.—So esp. freq. in part. perf.: crētus, a, um, arisen, sprung, descended from, born of; with abl.: mortali corpore cretus, Lucr. 5, 6; 2, 906; cf.: mortali semine, Ov. M. 15, 760: corpore materno, Lucr. 4, 1224: nativo corpore, id. 5, 61: Semiramio sanguine, Ov. M. 5, 85; cf. id. ib. 13, 31: Amyntore, id. ib. 8, 307; cf. Verg. A. 9, 672; Ov. M. 13, 750.—With ab: ab origine eādem, Ov. M. 4, 607; cf.: Trojano a sanguine, Verg. A. 4, 191.—

B. Trop.: haec villa inter manus meas crevit, Sen. Ep. 12, 1: ingens hic terris crescit labor, Sil. 3, 75.—Far more freq.,

II. Of things already in existence, to rise in height, to rise, grow, grow up, thrive, increase, etc.

A. Lit.: arbores, Lucr. 1, 254; so, fruges, arbusta, animantes, id. 1, 808: omnia paulatim crescunt (with grandescere alique), id. 1, 190 sq.: ut (ostrea) cum lunā pariter crescant pariterque decrescant, Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33: in lecticis crescunt (infantes), Quint. 1, 2, 7: cresce, puer, Ov. M. 2, 643 et saep.: in cujus domo creverat, had grown up, been reared, Suet. Oth. 1; cf.: Alexander per quinquennium sub Aristotele doctore mclito crevit, Just. 12, 16, 8: Nilus in aestatem crescit campisque redundat, Lucr. 6, 713; cf. of the same, id. 6, 737: Liger ex nivibus creverat, Caes. B. G. 7, 55 fin.: in frondem crines, in ramos bracchia, to grow into, Ov. M. 1, 550; cf.: in ungues manus, id. ib. 2, 479: in immensum Atlas, id. ib. 4, 661: in latitudinem, to increase in breadth, Col. Arb. 17: in longitudinem, Plin. 11, 37, 87, 216: super ora caputque onus, Ov. M. 12, 516: ut clivo crevisse putes, id. ib. 8, 191 et saep. —

2. Transf., to increase in number to, augment, multiply: non mihi absenti crevisse amicos, Cic. Sest. 32, 69 (B. and K. ex conj. decrevisse): adhuc crescentibus annis, Ov. A. A. 1, 61.—

B. Trop.

1. In gen., to grow, increase, to be enlarged or strengthened: cum Atheniensium opes senescere, contra Lacedaemoniorum crescere videret, Nep. Alcib. 5, 3; so, hostium opes animique, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 15, 45: non animi tantum, sed etiam vires crescebant, Liv. 5, 46, 4: animus laude crescit, Quint. 1, 2, 3; Curt. 4, 6, 13; Just. 19, 1, 8: animus crevit praetori, Liv. 44, 4, 1: cujusvis opes contra illius potentiam, Sall. C. 17, 7: cujusquam regnum per scelus, id. J. 14, 7: potentia paucorum (opp. plebis opes imminutae), id. C. 39, 1; Liv. 4, 2, 2 et saep.: haec (mala) primo paulatim, Sall. C. 10, 6: primo pecuniae, deinde imperii cupido, id. ib. 10, 3: fuga atque formido latius, id. J. 55, 7: licentia, id. C. 51, 30: inopia omnium, Liv. 21, 11, 12: rerum cognitio cottidie, Quint. 12, 11, 17: quā ex re creverat cum famā tum opibus, Nep. Alcib. 7 fin.; cf.: (Saguntini) in tantas brevi creverant opes, Liv. 21, 7, 3: Rhodiorum civitas populi Romani opibus, Sall. C. 51, 5; cf.: qui malo rei publicae, id. ib. 51, 32: usque ego postera Crescam laude recens, Hor. C. 3, 30, 8: a brevibus in longas (iambi), Quint. 9, 4, 136.—

2. In partic., to rise or increase in distinction, honor, courage, etc., to be promoted or advanced, to prosper, to become great, attain honor: accusarem alios potius, ex quibus possem crescere, Cic. Rosc. Am. 30, 83: ex invidiā senatoriā, id. Clu. 28, 77: ex his, Liv. 29, 37, 17: ex me, id. 35, 19, 5: de uno isto, de multis, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, 173: dignitate, gratiā, Nep. Att. 21, 1; cf. id. ib. 10, 3; and absol.: crescendi in curiā occasio, Liv. 1, 46, 2: cresco et exsulto et discussā senectute recalesco, quotiens, etc., Sen. Ep. 34, 1; cf.: gaudet et ex nostro crescit maerore Charaxus, Ov. H. 15, 117: hic uno modo crescere potest, si se ipse summittat, etc., Plin. Pan. 71, 4.