"crescive" meaning in English

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      "form": "more crescive",
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          "ref": "1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
          "text": "And so the prince obscured his contemplation\nUnder the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,\nGrew like the summer grass, fastest by night,\nUnseen, yet crescive in his faculty.",
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        "Increasing or growing; marked by gradual spontaneous development."
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        "(archaic) Increasing or growing; marked by gradual spontaneous development."
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  "word": "crescive"
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      "word": "crescively"
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      "form": "more crescive",
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