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1 decresco
dē-cresco, crēvi, crētum, 3, v. n.I.Orig., to grow less, grow shorter, decrease, wane (as the moon, bodies of water, the length of the day, etc.): ostreae cum luna pariter crescunt pariterque decrescunt, * Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33:II.crescunt loca decrescentibus undis,
Ov. M. 1, 345; cf.:aequora,
id. ib. 2, 292; and: decrescentia flumina, * Hor. Od. 4, 7, 3:die decrescente (coupled with quo rursus crescente),
Plin. 2, 59, 60, § 151:ubi febris fuit atque decrevit,
Cels. 3, 6; cf.:morbus,
id. ib. 20 al.: nocte dieque decretum et auctum, Laev. ap. Prisc. p. 869 P.;of the waters of the flood,
Vulg. Gen. 8, 5.—Hence,In gen., to decrease, become less, diminish:b.uncus aratri Ferreus occulte decrescit in arvis,
i. e. wears away, Lucr. 1, 315; id. 5, 536; Quint. 5, 12, 14; 9, 4, 23:admiratio decrescit,
id. 1, 3, 5:metus matrum,
Sil. 7, 82 et saep.:ut corpora quamlibet ardua et excelsa, procerioribus admota decrescant,
i. e. seem smaller, Plin. Pan. 61, 2:decrescente reditu (agelli) etiam pretium minuit,
Plin. Ep. 6, 3, 1.—Poet., of the gradual disappearance of places as one removes farther from them, Stat. Ach. 2, 308; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 189.—* B.Pregn., to pass away by diminution; to vanish, disappear:cornua decrescunt, etc.,
Ov. M. 1, 740.
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