increate
Americanadjective
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not created; uncreated.
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existing without having been created.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of increate
1375–1425; late Middle English increat < Late Latin increātus not made. See in- 3, create
Example Sentences
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Encircling all was the Empyrean, increate, incorporeal, motionless, unbounded in time or space, the proper seat of God, the home of the Angels, the abode of the Elect.
From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell by Charles Eliot Norton
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
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
Or of the Eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light, And never but in unapproachèd light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
The increate perpetual thirst, that draws Toward the realm of God's own form, bore us Swift almost as the heaven ye behold.
From Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise by Henry Francis Cary
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