Obs. rare. Also 7 incroch. [f. ENCROACH v.] Encroachment; gradual approach.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xxi. (1632), 1000. The further incroch of the French.
1666. J. Smith, Old Age (1676), 99. The insensible encroach of age, is no where so soon discovered.
a. 1716. South, 12 Serm. (1717), IV. 393. Grew into it by insensible Encroaches.
