Meaning of disincrease | Babel Free

Definitions

The reduction of something that has increased or that typically increases.

rare

Examples

“It takes brisk, frosty weather for this lest the meat should spoil⟳ before being salted down and put⟳ away; and the darkies say⟳ it is bad luck to kill⟳ hogs except in “the disincrease" of the moon.”

“In the case of martyrs their death does not diminish the Church but enlarges it, because their blood "engendereth new supply⟳ and it increaseth the more when the disincrease thereof is violently procured.”

“From acute respiraton disincrease of 500 over the preceding month; and an increase⟳ of 125 in deaths from consumption.”

CEFR level