increate, a.
(ɪnkriːˈeɪt)
[ad. med.L. increātus, f. in- (in-3) + creātus created.]
Not created, uncreated: said of divine beings or attributes.
| 1412–20 Lydg. Chron. Troy i. vi, Myghty Ioue eterne and increat. 1435 Misyn Fire Love 6 Þe warmnes of charite increate or vnwroght. c 1544 Golden Litany in Maskell Mon. Rit. II. 245 Lorde god, by thy increate ande vndiuidid trinite: haue mercy on vs. 1667 Milton P.L. iii. 6 Hail, holy Light!.. Bright effluence of bright essence increate. 1679 L. Addison First State Mahumedism 48 The Alcoran was not the Increate word of God. 1849 Thoreau Week Concord Monday 158 The Creator is still behind increate. |
Hence increˈately adv.
| 1833 J. H. Newman Arians ii. §4 (1876) 181 In process of time, a distinction was made between ἀγένητος and ἀγέννητος, (increate and ingenerate),..so that the Son might be said to be ἀγενήτως γεννητός (increately generate). |