Crescive

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Increasing; growing; crescent.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Increasing; growing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Increasing or growing. Marked by gradual spontaneous development.
  • Word Usage
    "Education is a thing of the spirit, it is instinct with life, [Greek: thermon ti pragma] as Aristotle would say, drawing upon resources that are not its own, "unseen yet crescive in its faculty" and in its growth taking to itself such outward form as it needs for the purpose of its inward life."
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