单词 | oncome |
释义 | oncomen. 1. a. Something harmful that comes upon a person, esp. as a calamity or affliction; spec. an attack of disease or an illness. Now rare (chiefly Scottish). 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 > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > bout or attack of onfalleOE cothec1000 bitc1175 accessc1300 attacha1400 shota1400 swalma1400 storm1540 excess?1541 accession1565 qualm1565 oncome1570 grasha1610 attachment1625 ingruence1635 turn1653 attack1665 fit1667 surprise1670 drow1727 tossa1732 irruption1732 sick1808 tout1808 whither1808 spell1856 go1867 whip1891 a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 147 Þet oðer is þe fule on-kume þa þe douel haueð þeron ibroht. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 5910 Hard on-come [a1400 Gött. Hard sondis] sal i send him sere, Bath on him and his kingrike. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 5927 Þat toþer on-com þat him fell. a1500 in J. Norri Names of Sicknesses in Eng. 1400–1550 (1992) 204 For broken bonys and for stitchis and soden swellinges and oncome, festre and oþer evilles. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Niiiv/2 An Oncome disease, morbus aduentitius. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 44 Especially in on-comes, as the Scotch call them, or mysterious diseases which baffle the regular physician. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. (at cited word) Oncome, a sharp attack of some ailment. 1948 V. Woolf Moment & other Ess. 10 The assault of fever or the oncome of melancholia. 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 a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) civ. 20 To gouern the land & beware oncomys. 2. Scottish. A heavy fall (of rain or snow); = on-ding n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > downpour floodc1275 spate1513 spout1554 gourder1565 squata1640 downpouring1669 deluge1720 pash1722 plout1740 on-ding1776 pelt1785 soaker1789 pelter1791 teem1793 pour1794 oncome1808 downpour1811 plash1820 slashing1829 plungec1841 dispunging1876 steeper1878 splurge1879 soak1891 drencher1892 toad-strangler1938 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Oncome, a fall of rain or snow. 1875 Border Treasury 10 Apr. 417 He says we'll hae oncome o' some kind within four-an-twenty hours. 1937 ‘A. Hepple’ Heydays (1953) 65 It took me some time to find her, for there was an oncome of snow. 1952 People's Jrnl. (Fife) 9 Aug. 4/3 The clouds are scuddin' gey sair across the wastert, I doot we'll hae an oncome afore mornin'. 1997 Independent (Nexis) 24 Sept. (Features section) 10 Oncome..persistent heavy rain or snow (also known as on-ding). 3. ΚΠ 1823 W. Tennant Cardinal Beaton 156 ‘I houp we'll hae a gud affcome.’ ‘I'm for the good oncome, deil a fear for the affcome.’ 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Oncome, the commencement of a business, especially of one that requires great exertion. Fife. 1868 W. Shelley Flowers by Wayside 56 The moudie, and the thrifty skrow, That howk their hames aneth the sward, The on-come o' that harle might rue. b. Originally Scottish. The approach, onset, or (occasionally) progress of something; = oncoming n. ΘΚΠ 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 1865 G. MacDonald Alec Forbes lxx Sin ever I kent ye i' this library, I never kent ye bide the oncome o' the nicht. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 1036 Evidences of the gradual oncome of chronic renal disease. 1919 Jrnl. Ecol. 7 2 The wrecks of a very ancient flora..expelled with the oncome of the age of aridity. 1942 C. Morley Thorofare i. xi. 43 Before any..swing of craft at her hawser the minnows guess the oncome of new power and skip absurdly on the surface. 1994 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 16 Oct. c9 A lot of things were separating people—Vietnam, campus unrest, the generation gap, the oncome of feminism. 2000 Euromoney (Nexis) Aug. 2 Oil prices..may fall following a pledge to raise output by OPEC and the oncome of summer months. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † oncomev. Obsolete. intransitive. Of an illness, fear, etc.: to come (to a person). Of a person: to invade, attack.In Old English with dative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards [verb (intransitive)] > move towards the speaker or this place comeeOE oncomeOE to come upc1390 to come onc1450 to come forward1518 resort?1548 to come along1590 to step up1660 hither1856 OE tr. Bili St. Machutus 35 Se halga wer hine þa wæs acsiende hu him seo adl oncome [L. acciderat]. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 841 On-kumen was cadalamor, King of elam, wið ferding stor. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Wisd. xvii. 14 To þem sodeyn & vnhopid drede on com [c1382 Douce 369(1) ouercam; a1425 L.V. cam on; L. supervenerat]. ?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1940) 22823 (MED) Qwiles þe fotemen to fight assent, Horse folk þai sulde oncum so boune, Þar enemies oste for to ber doune. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.a1225v.OE |
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