Part 5724

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.</def>

<blockquote>The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and <b>increment</b> of animal and vegetable bodies. <i>Woodward.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its <b>increment</b> by nations more civilized than itself. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to <i>decrement</i>.</def> "Large <i>increment</i>."

<i>J. Philips.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Rhet.)</fld> <def>An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage:</def>

<blockquote>Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, . . . think on these things. <i>Phil. iv. 8.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Infinitesimal increment</col> <fld>(Math.)</fld>, <cd>an infinitesimally small variation considered in Differential Calculus. See <er>Calculus</er>.</cd> -- <col>Method of increments</col> <fld>(Math.)</fld>, <cd>a calculus founded on the properties of the successive values of variable quantities and their differences or increments. It differs from the <i>method of fluxions<i> in treating these differences as finite, instead of infinitely small, and is equivalent to the calculus of <i>finite differences<i>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Incremental</h1> <Xpage=748>

<hw>In`cre*men"tal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; <as>as, the <ex>incremental</ex> lines in the dentine of teeth</as>.</def>

<h1>Increpate</h1> <Xpage=748>

<hw>In"cre*pate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>increpatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>increpare</ets> to upbraid; pref. <ets>in-</ets> in, against + <ets>crepare</ets> to talk noisily.]</ety> <def>To chide; to rebuke; to reprove.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Increpation</h1> <Xpage=748>

<hw>In`cre*pa"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>increpatio</ets>.]</ety> <def>A chiding; rebuke; reproof.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Hammond.</i>

<h1>Increscent</h1> <Xpage=748>

<hw>In*cres"cent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>increscens</ets>, <ets>-entis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>increscere</ets>. See <er>Increase</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging.</def>

<blockquote>Between the <b>incresent</b> and decrescent moon. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>Increasing; on the increase; -- said of the moon represented as the new moon, with the points turned toward the dexter side.</def>

<h1>Increst</h1> <Xpage=748>

<hw>In*crest"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To adorn with a crest.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Drummond.</i>

<h1>Incriminate</h1> <Xpage=748>

<hw>In*crim"i*nate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Incriminated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Incriminating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[LL. <ets>incriminatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>incriminare</ets>; <ets>in-</ets> in + <ets>criminare</ets>, <ets>criminari</ets>, to accuse one of a crime. See <er>Criminate</er>.]</ety> <def>To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.</def>

<h1>Incrimination</h1> <Xpage=748>

<hw>In*crim`i*na"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of incriminating; crimination.</def>