disincrease en · NOUN
Etymology
From dis- + increase.
Meanings
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(rare) The reduction of something that has increased or that typically increases.
It takes brisk, frosty weather for this lest the meat should spoil before being salted down and put away; and the darkies say it is bad luck to kill hogs except in “the disincrease" of the moon.
1902, Table Talk - Volume 17, page 41:From acute respiraton disincrease of 500 over the preceding month; and an increase of 125 in deaths from consumption.
1898, New York (State). Department of Health, Annual Report - Volume 18, page 490:In the case of martyrs their death does not diminish the Church but enlarges it, because their blood "engendereth new supply and it increaseth the more when the disincrease thereof is violently procured.
1970, Recusant History - Volumes 9-10, page 263:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| disincreases | Number=Plur | lexicographic |