crescive
[ kres-iv ]
/ ˈkrɛs ɪv /
adjective
increasing; growing.
Origin of crescive
1560–70; < Latin
crēsc(ere) to increase +
-ive
Words nearby crescive
crescendo murmur,
crescent,
crescent cell anemia,
crescent truss,
crescit eundo,
crescive,
creslan,
cresol,
cresol red,
cress,
cressent
Example sentences from the Web for crescive
They are crescive when they take shape in the mores, growing by the instinctive efforts by which the mores are produced.
Folkways |William Graham Sumner