incroach

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incroach (third-person singular simple present incroaches, present participle incroaching, simple past and past participle incroached)

  1. Obsolete spelling of encroach.
    • 1567, George Turbervil[l]e, “The Louer Exhorteth His Ladie to Take Time, while Time is”, in Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets, with a Discourse of the Friendly Affections of Tymetes to Pyndara His Ladie. […], London: […] Henry Denham, →OCLC, folios 32, verso – 33, recto:
      [D]rowſie drouping Age, / incroaching on apace, / With penſiue Plough will raze your hue / and Beauties beames deface.

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