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English
Etymology 1
First attested in 1412, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English increat(e), borrowed from Medieval Latin increātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See also in- (“not”), and create.
Adjective
increate (not comparable)
- That exists without having been created.
- Synonym: increated
- 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Bright effluence of bright essence increate
Etymology 2
Verb
increate (third-person singular simple present increates, present participle increating, simple past and past participle increated)
- To create within.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “increate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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