Obs. [a. OF. creancer to promise, engage, etc., f. creance: see above.]
1. intr. To pledge oneself to pay; to take credit.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Shipm. T., 289. We may creaunce whils we have a name, But goldles for to be it is no game. Ibid., 303. Now gooth this Marchant … and byeth and creaunceth.
2. To pledge oneself, vow, plight one’s troth.
c. 1477. Caxton, Jason, 97 b. Jason and Medea swore and creanced that they shold take eche other by mariage.
