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▪ I. † surcrease, n. Obs.
[a. OF. surcres, -creis, f. pres. stem of surcreistre: see surcrease v. Cf. increase n.]
A growth or addition over and above; an increment, accession; a surplus, excess.
1600Holland Livy viii. xxix. 302 Over and above all these, the Vestine people, as a surcrease to their troubles, joined and banded with the Samnites. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 98 Not (as the Iesuites make it) to serue for a surcrease or ouerplus of righteousnesse and merite. 1603Florio Montaigne i. xxix. (1632) 98 If the..husbandlike affection be..surcharged with that a man oweth to alliance and kindred, there is no doubt, but that surcrease may easily transport a husband beyond the bounds of reason. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. i. 515 Their surcrease grew so great, as forced them at last To seek another soyle.
So † surˈcrue [after accrue n. (OF. acreue), crew n.1 (OF. creue)], † surcroist [OF. surcroist (mod.F. surcroît), later form of surcrois, -creis, -cres: see above], † surcroitre ? [OF. surcroistre inf. used subst.].
1496–7Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 130 Send to me..a byll of such lands as ye are content to departe with to Kilborne in exchange, & if ye wyll have the surcrortr [sic]... 1601Holland Pliny xxi. iv. II. 83 Cæpio..was of opinion, That the hundred-leafe Rose..should not be put into Chaplets, unlesse it were last in manner of a tuft, to make a sur-croist, or about the edges as a border. c1638Wotton Let. to Walton in Reliq. (1672) 361 It [sc. the fever] had once left me, as I thought; but it was only to fetch more company, returning with a surcrew of those splenetick vapours. c1825Scott Let. to Laidlaw in Athenæum 6 Apr. (1895) 442/3, I have..great resources, and considerable securities, and am confident..to pay every man his own, with a large surcrue.
▪ II. † surˈcrease, v. Obs.
[f. OF. surcreiss-, present stem of surcreistre, -croistre (mod.F. -croître), f. sur- sur- + creistre (:—L. crēscĕre) to grow.]
1. intr. To grow greater or more numerous; to increase to excess.
1566Drant Wail. Hieremie i. in Horace etc. K j, In wealthe surcreasyng faste. 1601Holland Pliny xxxiii. ii. II. 460 The companie so surcreased, that..they could not bee contained all within the chamber of Iudges.
2. To grow over.
1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 94 If any..digge deepe holes, the earth of it selfe in a small time will surcrease without any ayde of man.
3. trans. To grow greater than; to increase beyond.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 175 In case these..elements..covet to have more than their just proportion,..seeking one to surcrease and over-grow another. |