creissement (c.1136-37)

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creissement (c.1136-37)

[ FEW: 2/ii,1325b crescere; Gdf: 2,379c croissement; GdfC: ; TL: 2,1080 croissement; DEAF:  croistre (croissement); DMF:  croissement 1; TLF: ; OED:  creasement n.; MED: ; DMLBS: 510c cressimentum ]
cresement;  croisement,  croissement  

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1increase
( 1215; MS: 1226 )  [C]hascuns contez, hundrez […] soient as ancienes fermes senz nul croisement (Latin: incremento)  359.25
( 1380 )  en cresement du pris de leins deinz vostre roialme susdite  SC 8/125/6205
2 advancement
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Chascun de vus s’onur rendrai E creissement (var. (H: s.xiv1/4) acressement) vus durai grant  1881
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Tant a chescun donné et pramis croissement [...], Chescun fist a Guillaume hommage et serement  i 58.1296
estre en creissement
1to be growing, expanding
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  Car saint’ iglise esteit idunc en creissement  5862
acreissement 
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