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cressance1 (1113-19)
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The form ancressance is a cross reference to the following entry:

cressance1 (1113-19)

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cressaunce;  creissance;  cresance,  cresaunce,  cresaunz;  croissance,  croisence  
  FEW:  crescere 2/ii,1324b Gdf:  crescence 2,366c GdfC:  creissance 9,244a TL: croissance 2,1079 DEAF:  croistre (croissance)  DMF:  croissance  TLF:  croissance  OED:  crescence n.  MED:  crescence n.  DMLBS:  crescentia 516b

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1increase: 
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Embolisme est creissance […]  Comput ANTS 2385
♦also_fig.growth: 
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  Beu fiz Edmund […] Dieus bone cresance vus doynd!  S Edm Life ANTS 534
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  des anz de sa cressance a l’estudie aveit tele aliance  S Rich ANTS 219
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  la mer monte et se retrait solonc le movement et la croissance de la lune  Waterford busby 234.S31.13
( 1302 )  […] pur la cresaunz de la dit vile  Northern Pet 44
( c.1365; MS: s.xiv4/4 )  e vostre plantee serra […] issint enracyné qe mes flours […] serrount tresbien sustenuz […], le vostre subside […] a la primeraigne cresance benurément enchesonantz  SAMPS1 374
♦rising water, flood: 
( 1332; MS: s.xivex )  as chescune [chaucee] y a ordiegnee une escluse [...] pur tenir la cressaunce [dans le] ventre de la rivere  Charboclois 318
2size: 
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Queus jovres, queus veuz, queus gentil de nesance, Queus petiz, queus maens, queus grantz de cresance  S Aub 1380
3produce: 
( 1388 )  quirs et peaux lanuz de la cressance du contees de Northumberland  Northumb 226
( c.1392 )  milles sakes de layn […] de la cressance  (ed. lancressance)  (ms. lacressance) du dit counté  Northern Pet 54
( 1399 )  pealx lanutz, si bien del cresceance de Tevedale […] et autres del cresceance d’Engleterre  Rot Parl1 iii 429
aver uncore cressance
to grow up: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  cist deit estre reis s’il ad encor cressaunce  Horn 1317

See also:

acressance  cressure 
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