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oncome, n.|ˈɒnkʌm|
[f. on- + come v.; cf. to come on.]
1. Something that comes upon one, as a calamity or visitation (obs.); an attack of disease (now Sc.).
c1175Lamb. Hom. 147 Þet oðer is þe fule on-kume þa þe douel haueð þeron ibroht. 13..Cursor M. 5910 (Cott.) Hard on-come [so Fairf.; Gött. sondis] sal i send him sere, Bath on him and his kingrike. Ibid. 5927 Þat toþer on-com þat him fell. 1570Levins Manip. 161/46 An Oncome, disease, morbus aduentitius. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxxi, Especially in oncomes, as the Scotch call them, or mysterious diseases, which baffle the regular physician.
†2. An attack, invasion. Obs.
a1340Hampole Psalter civ. 20 comm., To gouern þe land and beware wiþ oncomys.
3. Coming on; = oncoming n.
1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 1036 Evidences of the gradual oncome of chronic renal disease.
4. Sc.
a. ‘A fall of rain or snow’: = on-ding.
b. ‘The commencement of a business, especially of one that requires great exertion. Fife.’ (Jamieson.) |