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Definition of Encreased
1. encrease [v] - See also: encrease
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encreased
Literary usage of Encreased
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania State library, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania State Library (1891)
"stated in, countenanced hy the late information, and encreased hy the recent
murder of one of their people, appears to him a solid reason for a temporary ..."
2. Elizabethan Translations from the Italian: The Titles of Such Works Now by Mary Augusta Scott (1895)
"... three hundred and odde seuerall kindes of maladies, besides casualties.
Since when, there hath encreased and sprong up a fresh supply and ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"patrimony, the Poor are encreased to that prodigious rate upon them, that they
are forced to pay now yearly for their maintenance more than all their ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"The wind encreased in the night, and was very stormy. I got up soon after two of
ye clock in y° morning and took my Bible to read in as usual before going ..."
5. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1815)
"which was infinitely encreased by the presence of Fox and Burke in their Court
dresses, obtained general circulation, and occasioned no little laughter. ..."
6. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"The old man did, out of good authority, allow that they encreased, but could give
them no better account, than that " they made use of their own tails in ..."
7. The Constitution of the United States Defined and Carefully Annotated by George Washington Paschal (1868)
"... which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been
encreased during such time ; and no Person holding any Office under the United ..."
8. An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova-Scotia by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1829)
"Breton to the state of a county of Nova-Scotia, ithai likewise enjoyed its
immediate revenue, encreased to about £4000, under the fostering hand of the last ..."
9. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania State library, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania State Library (1891)
"stated in, countenanced hy the late information, and encreased hy the recent
murder of one of their people, appears to him a solid reason for a temporary ..."
10. Elizabethan Translations from the Italian: The Titles of Such Works Now by Mary Augusta Scott (1895)
"... three hundred and odde seuerall kindes of maladies, besides casualties.
Since when, there hath encreased and sprong up a fresh supply and ..."
11. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"patrimony, the Poor are encreased to that prodigious rate upon them, that they
are forced to pay now yearly for their maintenance more than all their ..."
12. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"The wind encreased in the night, and was very stormy. I got up soon after two of
ye clock in y° morning and took my Bible to read in as usual before going ..."
13. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1815)
"which was infinitely encreased by the presence of Fox and Burke in their Court
dresses, obtained general circulation, and occasioned no little laughter. ..."
14. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"The old man did, out of good authority, allow that they encreased, but could give
them no better account, than that " they made use of their own tails in ..."
15. The Constitution of the United States Defined and Carefully Annotated by George Washington Paschal (1868)
"... which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been
encreased during such time ; and no Person holding any Office under the United ..."
16. An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova-Scotia by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1829)
"Breton to the state of a county of Nova-Scotia, ithai likewise enjoyed its
immediate revenue, encreased to about £4000, under the fostering hand of the last ..."
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