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increate

American  
[in-kree-ayt, in-kree-it] / ˌɪn kriˈeɪt, ɪnˈkri ɪt /

adjective

  1. not created; uncreated.

  2. existing without having been created.


increate British  
/ ˌɪnkrɪˈeɪt, ˈɪnkrɪˌeɪt /

adjective

  1. archaic (esp of gods) never having been created

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of increate

1375–1425; late Middle English increat < Late Latin increātus not made. See in- 3, create


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Ere traversed; and that alone goes back To join the maker in the increate, The golden chambers of eternal light.

From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Hiram Hoyt Richmond

It's the law of life, the harmony of heaven, the breath of which the universe was born, the divine essence increate of the ever-living God.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann

It hardly allows the reader to rest in any supreme first cause, but directly it hints at a supremer still which created the last, and the Creator is still behind increate.

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

And it is, like God, increate, springing out of nothing, yet the maker of all things - ever changing yet the same yesterday, to-day and for ever.

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler

Education occurs when a man is confronted with something true and beautiful and good which stimulates to active life that "bright effluence of bright essence increate" which dwells within him.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

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