onsetn.¹

Brit.

/ˈɒnsɛt/, U.S.

/ˈɑnˌsɛt/, Scottish English

/ˈɔnsɛt/, Irish English

/ˈɒːnsɛt/

Forms: Scottish pre-1700 onesett, pre-1700 onsait, pre-1700 onseat, pre-1700 onseit, pre-1700 onsett, pre-1700 onsette, pre-1700 onsset, pre-1700 ouensett, pre-1700 vnset, pre-1700 1700s– onset; English regional (northern) 1800s– onset, 1800s– onsett; Irish English (northern) 1800s– onset.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: on- prefix, set.

Etymology: < on- prefix + set (either the reflex of Old English set habitation (see set n.¹), or < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic setr dwelling, residence: see saeter n.)). Compare Old Icelandic áseta settlement. Compare outset n.²The primary sense may have been ‘dwelling-place on the farm or land’.

Scottish, English regional (northern) and Irish English. Now rare.

With plural or (occasionally) singular agreement. A dwelling or group of dwellings; the site of such a dwelling, etc. Also: a farmstead (cf. onstead n.).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > [noun]

fiend-reseOE

frumresec1275

assault1297

sault1297

inracea1300

sailing13..

venuea1330

checkc1330

braid1340

affrayc1380

outrunningc1384

resinga1387

wara1387

riota1393

assailc1400

assayc1400

onset1423

rake?a1425

pursuitc1425

assemblinga1450

brunta1450

oncominga1450

assembly1487

envaya1500

oncomea1500

shovea1500

front1523

scry1523

attemptate1524

assaulting1548

push1565

brash1573

attempt1584

affront?1587

pulse1587

affret1590

saliaunce1590

invasion1591

assailment1592

insultation1596

aggressa1611

onslaught1613

source1616

confronta1626

impulsion1631

tentative1632

essaya1641

infall1645

attack1655

stroke1698

insult1710

coup de main1759

onfall1837

hurrah1841

beat-up of quarters1870

offensive1887

strafe1915

grand slam1916

hop-over1918

run1941

strike1942

1423 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1912) I. 11 Twa forestar stedis..with the gamyn onsetis and dwelling places that thai now haff.

1535 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 343/2 Þat euery mane..cause euery tennent of þeir landis þat hes þe samin in tak and assedacioune to Plant vpoune þare onsett ȝerelie for euery marke lande Ane tree.

1590 Edinb. Test. XXII. f. 167^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Onset(t He leuis to his said spous his rowme and onset in Kelso.

1641 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1817) V. 637/1 All and haill the..landis of Ravelrig, with houssis, biggingis, yairdis, orchairdis, toftis, croftis, onsettis, outsettis [etc.].

1672 in W. R. Fraser Hist. Laurencekirk (1880) 71 For infefting him in the lands and barony of Haulkerton..and the onsset called Waineyford.

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iv. i. 55 The Scene describ'd in former Page, Glaud's Onset.

1788 Dumfries Weekly Jrnl. 1 Jan. in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. 479/2 This farm is pleasantly situated, has an onset of good houses, and is in excellent heart.

1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 25 That aw our heale onset wad be in a lowe.

1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Onset, a dwelling house and out~buildings.

a1903 J. E. Dent in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 345/2 [South Durham] I ordered him off t'onset.

1942 E. E. Evans Irish Heritage 47 Little ‘clusters’, ‘onsets’ or ‘clachans’ of peasant houses, a dozen or so together, which preserve something of the character of the old villages.

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. Onset,..an out-house; a farm-house with its outbuildings; a small cluster of houses, a clachan.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

onsetn.²

Brit.

/ˈɒnsɛt/, U.S.

/ˈɔnˌsɛt/,

/ˈɑnˌsɛt/

Forms: 1500s oncet, 1500s onesette, 1500s onsett, 1500s– onset; Scottish pre-1700 onsett, pre-1700 unseatt, pre-1700 1700s– onset.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: on- prefix, set n.¹

Etymology: < on- prefix + set n.¹, after to set on —— at set v.¹ Phrasal verbs 1, to set on at Phrasal verbs 2. Compare earlier onsetting n. Compare onset v.

a. An attack or onslaught, esp. a military attack; an assault. †to give (the) onset: to begin an attack, to make an attack (obsolete). Frequently with the.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun]

assault1297

venuea1330

scoura1400

wassailc1400

frayc1430

brunta1450

sault1510

onseta1522

attemptate1524

onsetting1541

breach1578

dint1579

objectiona1586

invasion1591

extent1594

grassation1610

attack1655

run1751

wrack1863

mayhem1870

serve1967

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. vii. 63 Mony debatis and onsettis haue we done.

1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. (1898) II. 85 After the oncet is geven, the worste is paste.

1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 628, in Wks. (1931) I. 162 Upon the Scottis thay maid onset.

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. iii. 253 That inuincible rage, and furious onset, which goes current with the barbarous for true valour.

1669 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) I. 170 Upone thair just apprehensioune of some outragious onsett in defence of thair prissoner.

1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 80 This destroying of the outward garniture of the earth is but the first onset.

1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xvi. 949 He..thrice three Heroes at each Onset slew.

1767 Poetry in Ann. Reg. 231 The forceful onset had contus'd his brain.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. viii. 616 At their ships Give them brisk onset.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. ix. 168 Prince John with his truncheon signed to the trumpets to sound the onset.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 279 These troops had to bear the first brunt of the onset.

1892 G. Meredith Poems 77 He entreats..Compassion..For his fierce bugler horning onset.

a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) ii. 140 Beneath that boyish exterior was..the male hardness, the callousness that met the brunt and withstood the shock of onset.

1930 W. S. Churchill My Early Life xiv. 196 We young men who lay down to sleep that night within three miles of 60,000 well-armed fanatical Dervishes, expecting every moment their violent onset or onrush.

1993 G. Williams Renewal & Reformation ii. 49 He told with wry, mocking humour how, at the onset of the enemy, he and his fellows fled precipitately.

b. In extended use: an attack; spec. a fierce criticism or counter-argument; a sudden attack of pain, fever, etc. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by some hostile or injurious agency

onfalleOE

oncomea1225

sailing13..

visitinga1382

siegec1385

assault1508

visitation1535

assaulting1548

onset1566

assailment1592

blow1594

insult1603

attempt1662

attack1665

offencea1677

seizure1881

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by hostile measures or words

bruntc1425

assaultc1449

battery1562

onset1566

brash1573

breach1578

onslaught1613

onfall1646

attack1653

assay?1705

to return to the charge1752

arietation1797

set-to1808

set1829

dead set1835

go-in1858

on-ding1871

hatchet work1938

blitzkrieg1939

blitz1940

carpet bombing1956

bowling1959

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xlii. f. 126^v She shotte them [sc. lookes] forth so cruelly, that his poore harte..could not indure that newe onset.

1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 129 He gaue a freshe onset vppon her with friendlye louing Letters.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxvi. 17 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 102 Whose fearelesse foote to bide thy Onsett tarieth.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 374 Other tables set with wine, in which they gave a new onset, as a fresh enemy.

1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxvii. 279 In a sudden daunt and onset of an unexpected evill.

1698 T. Dilke Pretenders ii. 13 Loves first Onset.

1719 J. Barker Exilius (ed. 2) II. vi. 284 The first Onset of his Eyes subjected my Heart to Love's imperial Commands.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 176. ⁋2 Among the principal of comick calamities, may be reckoned the pain which an author..feels at the onset of a furious critick.

1833 J. Kennedy G. Chalmers 196 Though I got mony an onset aboot you, it aye ran i' my head that truth wad prevail.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 474 His argument could not sustain the first onset of yours.

1884 E. A. Abbott Flatland ii. xix. 89 Yielding to our intellectual onset, the gates of the Six Dimension shall fly open.

1913 E. Dowden Woman's Reliquary lxxxv Brain challenged brain to onset fierce.

1986 D. Coward tr. A. Dumas La Dame aux Camélias (2000) i. 15 I feared a new onset of obstinacy which..would have assuredly proved too much for my purse.

a. The beginning of some (esp. unpleasant) situation, condition, or state, etc.; a commencement, a start. †to give the onset: to make a beginning, to start (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > (a) starting operation

onset1561

start1589

outsettinga1698

offset1791

startup1892

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun]

ordeOE

thresholdeOE

frumthc950

anginOE

frumeOE

worthOE

beginninga1225

springc1225

commencementc1250

ginninga1300

comsingc1325

entryc1330

aginning1340

alphac1384

incomea1400

formec1400

ingressc1420

birtha1425

principlea1449

comsementa1450

resultancec1450

inition1463

inceptiona1483

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originala1529

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opening1531

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onset1561

rise1589

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ingate1591

overture1595

budding1601

initiationa1607

starting off1616

dawninga1631

dawn1633

impriminga1639

start1644

fall1647

initial1656

outset1664

outsettinga1698

going off1714

offsetting1782

offset1791

commence1794

aurora1806

incipiency1817

set-out1821

set-in1826

throw-off1828

go-off1830

outstart1844

start1857

incipience1864

oncome1865

kick-off1875

off-go1886

off1896

get-go1960

lift-off1967

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. B I..must giue the onsett in oure pastimes this night.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 125 There is surely no greater Wisedome, then well to time the Beginnings, and Onsets of Things.

1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. ii. iii. 46 They had made a fair onset in Christianity,..they were forward in their way.

1775 D. Garrick Let. 15 Nov. (1963) III. 1047 Let me desire You to give me the earliest Notice when you & M^rs Siddons can be here, & what part or parts she Would rather chuse for her Onset.

1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 698 It may be employed at the very onset of the fever, during the presence of the rigors.

1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xxi. 392 She kissed her a dozen times at the first onset, and called her dear heart.

1890 Proc. Royal Soc. 48 370 At the onset of germination the oil gradually disappears.

1922 W. Gerhardi Futility iii. vii. 182 It grew markedly colder, and one felt the onset of winter.

1951 Jrnl. Dental Res. 30 380 Onset of use of fluorinated waters has to occur within the first six years of life in order to produce an appreciable protection against caries.

1981 R. N. Hardy Endocrine Physiol. iv. 36 This..shows that the islets are slow to respond both to onset and offset of stimulation for some time after birth.

2001 Times 24 Apr. ii. 14/3 For many once active men, a sports injury or the onset of middle age can lead suddenly to a couch-potato existence.

b. Phonetics. The movement of the speech organs preparatory to, or at the start of, the articulation of a speech sound. Also: the initial part of a syllable, esp. the consonant or consonants at the beginning of a syllable.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > syllabic sound > syllable > initial part of

onset1933

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. vii. 118 In passing from silence to a stressed vowel, we usually make a gradual onset of the voice.

1963 Amer. Speech 38 57 Even if one were to agree that /h/ as an onset consonant ‘is a voiceless anticipation of the following peak nucleus’ [etc.].

1991 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 36 ii. 156 A plot of onsets and offglides for both /aI/ and /aʊ/ for an informant from Minnesota.

†3. An ornamental addition. Obsolete. rare. [The illustrative quot. cited by Johnson is from Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 238 ‘I..will with deeds requite thy gentlenes: And for an onset..Lauinia will I make my Empresse’: this belongs at sense 2a. No corresponding sense is noted in glossaries of Northumberland dialect, and W. Nicolson's word, referred to by Johnson, was probably onset n.¹ (compare toft n.¹).] Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Onset..2. ‘Something added by way of ornamental appendage. This sense, says Nicholson, is still retained in Northumberland, where onset means a tuft.’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† onsetv.

Forms: see on- prefix and set v.¹

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian onsetta to attack, Middle Dutch aensetten to set on (Dutch aanzetten ), Middle Low German ansetten to set on, Old High German anasezzan to set on (Middle High German anesetzen to set on, to attack, German ansetzen , now rare in these senses) < the Germanic base of on- prefix + the Germanic base of set v.¹ Compare to set on —— at set v.¹ Phrasal verbs 1, to set on at set v.¹ Phrasal verbs 2. Compare also inset v.

Obsolete.

1. transitive. To set or place (on, over); to bestow, confer.Also with indirect object in the dative.

ΚΠ

eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) l. 20 (21) Tunc inponent super altare tuum uitulos : ðonne onsettað ofer wibed ðin calfur.

eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xlix. 383 Gif mon on niwne we[a]ll unadrugodne & unastiðodne micelne hrof & hefigne onsett, ðonne ne timbreð he no healle ac hryre.

OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke xv. 5 Cum inuenerit illam imponit in umeros suos gaudentes [sic] : miððy gemoetað hia onsettað on [OE Rushw. ofer] scyldrum his gefeande.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1022 Æþelnoð biscop for to Rome, & wæs underfangen þær fram Benedicte þam papan..& mid his agenum handum him his pallium onsette.

2. transitive. To oppress, beset.With object in dative.

ΚΠ

OE Blickling Homilies 203 Þa Cristenan him mid heora wæpnum hyndon & onsetton.

OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Corpus Cambr.) v. i. 386 Gemetton we us æghwanon gelicne storm foran onsettende & fortimbrigende.

3. transitive. To make an attack on, to set upon. Occasionally: to debate or contest (something). Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack with hostile words or measures

fangc1320

hurtlec1374

impugnc1384

weighc1386

to fall upon ——a1398

to start on ——a1398

oppugn?1435

to lay to, untoa1500

onseta1522

wipe1523

to set against ——1542

to fall aboard——1593

aggress1596

to fall foul1602

attack1613

appugn1615

to set upon ——1639

to fall on ——1641

to lay home, hard, hardly to1650

tack1720

bombard1766

savage1796

to pitch into ——1823

to begin upon a personc1825

bulldog1842

to down on (also upon)a1848

to set at ——1849

to start on ——a1851

to start in on1859

set on at or to1862

to let into1872

to go for ——1890

swash1890

slog1891

to get at ——1893

tee1955

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. xiii. 75 Camylla hym at myscheif hes on set [Ruddim. vnset].

a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Nyne Fyrst Bks. Eneidos (1562) ix. sig. Cciv^v He sodenly onsets, & to his mates for fyre exclames.

a1586 R. Maitland Aganis Theivis of Liddisdaill in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS. (1919) I. xcv. 301 Quhair thai on sett, ay in thai gett Thair is na ȝet nor dur thame bydis.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f.17^v This for a while was hotely onsetted and a reasonable price offered, but (vpon what ground I know not) soone cooled againe.

1649 E. Sparke in J. Shute Sarah & Hagar To Rdr. sig. a2^v A feast where I am..doubtful which dish to on-set; where to begin of him.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

> as lemmas

on-set

on-set adj.

Brit.

/ˌɒnˈsɛt/

U.S.

/ˌɔnˈsɛt/

/ˌɑnˈsɛt/

situated or occurring on the set of a film.

ΚΠ

1985 Life Dec. 161 During shooting Sir Richard nurtured an on-set romance between two of his young actors.

2002 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 14 Feb. 4 By all reports, the on-set catering has improved considerably.

extracted from on-prefix

n.¹1423

n.²a1522

v.eOE

as lemmas

单词	onset
释义	onsetn.¹ Brit. /ˈɒnsɛt/, U.S. /ˈɑnˌsɛt/, Scottish English /ˈɔnsɛt/, Irish English /ˈɒːnsɛt/ Forms: Scottish pre-1700 onesett, pre-1700 onsait, pre-1700 onseat, pre-1700 onseit, pre-1700 onsett, pre-1700 onsette, pre-1700 onsset, pre-1700 ouensett, pre-1700 vnset, pre-1700 1700s– onset; English regional (northern) 1800s– onset, 1800s– onsett; Irish English (northern) 1800s– onset. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: on- prefix, set. Etymology: < on- prefix + set (either the reflex of Old English set habitation (see set n.¹), or < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic setr dwelling, residence: see saeter n.)). Compare Old Icelandic áseta settlement. Compare outset n.²The primary sense may have been ‘dwelling-place on the farm or land’. Scottish, English regional (northern) and Irish English. Now rare. With plural or (occasionally) singular agreement. A dwelling or group of dwellings; the site of such a dwelling, etc. Also: a farmstead (cf. onstead n.). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] fiend-reseOE frumresec1275 assault1297 sault1297 inracea1300 sailing13.. venuea1330 checkc1330 braid1340 affrayc1380 outrunningc1384 resinga1387 wara1387 riota1393 assailc1400 assayc1400 onset1423 rake?a1425 pursuitc1425 assemblinga1450 brunta1450 oncominga1450 assembly1487 envaya1500 oncomea1500 shovea1500 front1523 scry1523 attemptate1524 assaulting1548 push1565 brash1573 attempt1584 affront?1587 pulse1587 affret1590 saliaunce1590 invasion1591 assailment1592 insultation1596 aggressa1611 onslaught1613 source1616 confronta1626 impulsion1631 tentative1632 essaya1641 infall1645 attack1655 stroke1698 insult1710 coup de main1759 onfall1837 hurrah1841 beat-up of quarters1870 offensive1887 strafe1915 grand slam1916 hop-over1918 run1941 strike1942 1423 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1912) I. 11 Twa forestar stedis..with the gamyn onsetis and dwelling places that thai now haff. 1535 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 343/2 Þat euery mane..cause euery tennent of þeir landis þat hes þe samin in tak and assedacioune to Plant vpoune þare onsett ȝerelie for euery marke lande Ane tree. 1590 Edinb. Test. XXII. f. 167^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Onset(t He leuis to his said spous his rowme and onset in Kelso. 1641 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1817) V. 637/1 All and haill the..landis of Ravelrig, with houssis, biggingis, yairdis, orchairdis, toftis, croftis, onsettis, outsettis [etc.]. 1672 in W. R. Fraser Hist. Laurencekirk (1880) 71 For infefting him in the lands and barony of Haulkerton..and the onsset called Waineyford. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iv. i. 55 The Scene describ'd in former Page, Glaud's Onset. 1788 Dumfries Weekly Jrnl. 1 Jan. in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. 479/2 This farm is pleasantly situated, has an onset of good houses, and is in excellent heart. 1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 25 That aw our heale onset wad be in a lowe. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Onset, a dwelling house and out~buildings. a1903 J. E. Dent in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 345/2 [South Durham] I ordered him off t'onset. 1942 E. E. Evans Irish Heritage 47 Little ‘clusters’, ‘onsets’ or ‘clachans’ of peasant houses, a dozen or so together, which preserve something of the character of the old villages. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. Onset,..an out-house; a farm-house with its outbuildings; a small cluster of houses, a clachan. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). onsetn.² Brit. /ˈɒnsɛt/, U.S. /ˈɔnˌsɛt/, /ˈɑnˌsɛt/ Forms: 1500s oncet, 1500s onesette, 1500s onsett, 1500s– onset; Scottish pre-1700 onsett, pre-1700 unseatt, pre-1700 1700s– onset. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: on- prefix, set n.¹ Etymology: < on- prefix + set n.¹, after to set on —— at set v.¹ Phrasal verbs 1, to set on at Phrasal verbs 2. Compare earlier onsetting n. Compare onset v. 1. a. An attack or onslaught, esp. a military attack; an assault. †to give (the) onset: to begin an attack, to make an attack (obsolete). Frequently with the. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] assault1297 venuea1330 scoura1400 wassailc1400 frayc1430 brunta1450 sault1510 onseta1522 attemptate1524 onsetting1541 breach1578 dint1579 objectiona1586 invasion1591 extent1594 grassation1610 attack1655 run1751 wrack1863 mayhem1870 serve1967 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. vii. 63 Mony debatis and onsettis haue we done. 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. (1898) II. 85 After the oncet is geven, the worste is paste. 1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 628, in Wks. (1931) I. 162 Upon the Scottis thay maid onset. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. iii. 253 That inuincible rage, and furious onset, which goes current with the barbarous for true valour. 1669 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) I. 170 Upone thair just apprehensioune of some outragious onsett in defence of thair prissoner. 1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 80 This destroying of the outward garniture of the earth is but the first onset. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xvi. 949 He..thrice three Heroes at each Onset slew. 1767 Poetry in Ann. Reg. 231 The forceful onset had contus'd his brain. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. viii. 616 At their ships Give them brisk onset. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. ix. 168 Prince John with his truncheon signed to the trumpets to sound the onset. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 279 These troops had to bear the first brunt of the onset. 1892 G. Meredith Poems 77 He entreats..Compassion..For his fierce bugler horning onset. a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) ii. 140 Beneath that boyish exterior was..the male hardness, the callousness that met the brunt and withstood the shock of onset. 1930 W. S. Churchill My Early Life xiv. 196 We young men who lay down to sleep that night within three miles of 60,000 well-armed fanatical Dervishes, expecting every moment their violent onset or onrush. 1993 G. Williams Renewal & Reformation ii. 49 He told with wry, mocking humour how, at the onset of the enemy, he and his fellows fled precipitately. b. In extended use: an attack; spec. a fierce criticism or counter-argument; a sudden attack of pain, fever, etc. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by some hostile or injurious agency onfalleOE oncomea1225 sailing13.. visitinga1382 siegec1385 assault1508 visitation1535 assaulting1548 onset1566 assailment1592 blow1594 insult1603 attempt1662 attack1665 offencea1677 seizure1881 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by hostile measures or words bruntc1425 assaultc1449 battery1562 onset1566 brash1573 breach1578 onslaught1613 onfall1646 attack1653 assay?1705 to return to the charge1752 arietation1797 set-to1808 set1829 dead set1835 go-in1858 on-ding1871 hatchet work1938 blitzkrieg1939 blitz1940 carpet bombing1956 bowling1959 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xlii. f. 126^v She shotte them [sc. lookes] forth so cruelly, that his poore harte..could not indure that newe onset. 1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 129 He gaue a freshe onset vppon her with friendlye louing Letters. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxvi. 17 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 102 Whose fearelesse foote to bide thy Onsett tarieth. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 374 Other tables set with wine, in which they gave a new onset, as a fresh enemy. 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxvii. 279 In a sudden daunt and onset of an unexpected evill. 1698 T. Dilke Pretenders ii. 13 Loves first Onset. 1719 J. Barker Exilius (ed. 2) II. vi. 284 The first Onset of his Eyes subjected my Heart to Love's imperial Commands. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 176. ⁋2 Among the principal of comick calamities, may be reckoned the pain which an author..feels at the onset of a furious critick. 1833 J. Kennedy G. Chalmers 196 Though I got mony an onset aboot you, it aye ran i' my head that truth wad prevail. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 474 His argument could not sustain the first onset of yours. 1884 E. A. Abbott Flatland ii. xix. 89 Yielding to our intellectual onset, the gates of the Six Dimension shall fly open. 1913 E. Dowden Woman's Reliquary lxxxv Brain challenged brain to onset fierce. 1986 D. Coward tr. A. Dumas La Dame aux Camélias (2000) i. 15 I feared a new onset of obstinacy which..would have assuredly proved too much for my purse. 2. a. The beginning of some (esp. unpleasant) situation, condition, or state, etc.; a commencement, a start. †to give the onset: to make a beginning, to start (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > (a) starting operation onset1561 start1589 outsettinga1698 offset1791 startup1892 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] ordeOE thresholdeOE frumthc950 anginOE frumeOE worthOE beginninga1225 springc1225 springc1225 commencementc1250 ginninga1300 comsingc1325 entryc1330 aginning1340 alphac1384 incomea1400 formec1400 ingressc1420 birtha1425 principlea1449 comsementa1450 resultancec1450 inition1463 inceptiona1483 entering1526 originala1529 inchoation1530 opening1531 starting1541 principium1550 entrance1553 onset1561 rise1589 begin1590 ingate1591 overture1595 budding1601 initiationa1607 starting off1616 dawninga1631 dawn1633 impriminga1639 start1644 fall1647 initial1656 outset1664 outsettinga1698 going off1714 offsetting1782 offset1791 commence1794 aurora1806 incipiency1817 set-out1821 set-in1826 throw-off1828 go-off1830 outstart1844 start1857 incipience1864 oncome1865 kick-off1875 off-go1886 off1896 get-go1960 lift-off1967 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. B I..must giue the onsett in oure pastimes this night. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 125 There is surely no greater Wisedome, then well to time the Beginnings, and Onsets of Things. 1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. ii. iii. 46 They had made a fair onset in Christianity,..they were forward in their way. 1775 D. Garrick Let. 15 Nov. (1963) III. 1047 Let me desire You to give me the earliest Notice when you & M^rs Siddons can be here, & what part or parts she Would rather chuse for her Onset. 1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 698 It may be employed at the very onset of the fever, during the presence of the rigors. 1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xxi. 392 She kissed her a dozen times at the first onset, and called her dear heart. 1890 Proc. Royal Soc. 48 370 At the onset of germination the oil gradually disappears. 1922 W. Gerhardi Futility iii. vii. 182 It grew markedly colder, and one felt the onset of winter. 1951 Jrnl. Dental Res. 30 380 Onset of use of fluorinated waters has to occur within the first six years of life in order to produce an appreciable protection against caries. 1981 R. N. Hardy Endocrine Physiol. iv. 36 This..shows that the islets are slow to respond both to onset and offset of stimulation for some time after birth. 2001 Times 24 Apr. ii. 14/3 For many once active men, a sports injury or the onset of middle age can lead suddenly to a couch-potato existence. b. Phonetics. The movement of the speech organs preparatory to, or at the start of, the articulation of a speech sound. Also: the initial part of a syllable, esp. the consonant or consonants at the beginning of a syllable. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > syllabic sound > syllable > initial part of onset1933 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. vii. 118 In passing from silence to a stressed vowel, we usually make a gradual onset of the voice. 1963 Amer. Speech 38 57 Even if one were to agree that /h/ as an onset consonant ‘is a voiceless anticipation of the following peak nucleus’ [etc.]. 1991 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 36 ii. 156 A plot of onsets and offglides for both /aI/ and /aʊ/ for an informant from Minnesota. †3. An ornamental addition. Obsolete. rare. [The illustrative quot. cited by Johnson is from Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 238 ‘I..will with deeds requite thy gentlenes: And for an onset..Lauinia will I make my Empresse’: this belongs at sense 2a. No corresponding sense is noted in glossaries of Northumberland dialect, and W. Nicolson's word, referred to by Johnson, was probably onset n.¹ (compare toft n.¹).] Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Onset..2. ‘Something added by way of ornamental appendage. This sense, says Nicholson, is still retained in Northumberland, where onset means a tuft.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † onsetv. Forms: see on- prefix and set v.¹ Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian onsetta to attack, Middle Dutch aensetten to set on (Dutch aanzetten ), Middle Low German ansetten to set on, Old High German anasezzan to set on (Middle High German anesetzen to set on, to attack, German ansetzen , now rare in these senses) < the Germanic base of on- prefix + the Germanic base of set v.¹ Compare to set on —— at set v.¹ Phrasal verbs 1, to set on at set v.¹ Phrasal verbs 2. Compare also inset v. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To set or place (on, over); to bestow, confer.Also with indirect object in the dative. ΚΠ eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) l. 20 (21) Tunc inponent super altare tuum uitulos : ðonne onsettað ofer wibed ðin calfur. eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xlix. 383 Gif mon on niwne we[a]ll unadrugodne & unastiðodne micelne hrof & hefigne onsett, ðonne ne timbreð he no healle ac hryre. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke xv. 5 Cum inuenerit illam imponit in umeros suos gaudentes [sic] : miððy gemoetað hia onsettað on [OE Rushw. ofer] scyldrum his gefeande. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1022 Æþelnoð biscop for to Rome, & wæs underfangen þær fram Benedicte þam papan..& mid his agenum handum him his pallium onsette. 2. transitive. To oppress, beset.With object in dative. ΚΠ OE Blickling Homilies 203 Þa Cristenan him mid heora wæpnum hyndon & onsetton. OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Corpus Cambr.) v. i. 386 Gemetton we us æghwanon gelicne storm foran onsettende & fortimbrigende. 3. transitive. To make an attack on, to set upon. Occasionally: to debate or contest (something). Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack with hostile words or measures fangc1320 hurtlec1374 impugnc1384 weighc1386 to fall upon ——a1398 to start on ——a1398 oppugn?1435 to lay to, untoa1500 onseta1522 wipe1523 to set against ——1542 to fall aboard——1593 aggress1596 to fall foul1602 attack1613 appugn1615 to set upon ——1639 to fall on ——1641 to lay home, hard, hardly to1650 tack1720 bombard1766 savage1796 to pitch into ——1823 to begin upon a personc1825 bulldog1842 to down on (also upon)a1848 to set at ——1849 to start on ——a1851 to start in on1859 set on at or to1862 to let into1872 to go for ——1890 swash1890 slog1891 to get at ——1893 tee1955 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. xiii. 75 Camylla hym at myscheif hes on set [Ruddim. vnset]. a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Nyne Fyrst Bks. Eneidos (1562) ix. sig. Cciv^v He sodenly onsets, & to his mates for fyre exclames. a1586 R. Maitland Aganis Theivis of Liddisdaill in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS. (1919) I. xcv. 301 Quhair thai on sett, ay in thai gett Thair is na ȝet nor dur thame bydis. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f.17^v This for a while was hotely onsetted and a reasonable price offered, but (vpon what ground I know not) soone cooled againe. 1649 E. Sparke in J. Shute Sarah & Hagar To Rdr. sig. a2^v A feast where I am..doubtful which dish to on-set; where to begin of him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2021). > as lemmas on-set on-set adj. Brit. /ˌɒnˈsɛt/ , U.S. /ˌɔnˈsɛt/ , /ˌɑnˈsɛt/ situated or occurring on the set of a film. ΚΠ 1985 Life Dec. 161 During shooting Sir Richard nurtured an on-set romance between two of his young actors. 2002 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 14 Feb. 4 By all reports, the on-set catering has improved considerably. extracted from on-prefix < n.¹1423n.²a1522v.eOE as lemmas
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