Incresco, increscis, incréui, incrêtum. pen. prod. incréscere. Liu. Quint. To increase: to grow and waxe more and more.Increscit audacia.Liu. Barba increscit genis. Lucan. Increscente certamine.Liu.Dolor increuit.Ouid. Morbi increscunt. Cels. Increscentibus variè maculis ac verrucis. Plin. Valetudo increuerat.Plin. iun.The sicknesse increased or waxed worse and worse.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
in-cresco, ēvi, v. n., to grow in or upon any thing (perh. not ante-Aug.). I.Lit.: non taedia animalium capillis increscunt,
do not grow in the hair
, Plin. 28, 11, 46, 163. — B. In gen., to grow, increase: lacrimis quoque flumina dicunt Increvisse suis, Ov. M. 11, 48: maxime cibo eget, qui increscit, Cels. 1, 3: ne cum increverint (arbores), Col. 3, 21.—II.Trop.A.To grow or increase in: animis discordibus irae, Verg. A. 9, 688.— B. In gen., to increase, augment: morbus increscit, Cels. 3, 2: dolor, Sen. Med. 951: audacia, Liv. 1, 33, 8: certamen, id. 10, 5, 2: fremitus, id. 45, 1, 3: increscere et invalescere sententiam, Dig. 33, 7, 12.— Rhet., to advance from weaker to stronger expressions: hoc genus increscit, Quint. 8, 4, 2.