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Oncome
Definitions
- 1 Advent, arrival, approach; onset.
"I see the dawn or rather I feel the oncome of it."
- 2 The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.
- 3 The setting about of an action; development; progress.
- 4 An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode.
"On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia."
- 5 A mysterious disease or ailment. dialectal
"This woman had acquired a considerable reputation among the ignorant by the pretended cures which she performed, especially in oncomes, as the Scotch call them, or mysterious diseases, which baffle the regular physician."
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- 6 A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst. dialectal
- 7 The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.
- 1 To arrive; come to; come on. intransitive, rare
"This said, and shaking his long dark spear, then forward he hurl'd it Into the fullround buckler of Priamides Alexander; Right thro' his glittering shield oncame the redoubtable warspear, On still advanced, throughpiercing his breastplate's various-art-work [...]"
Etymology
From Middle English oncomen, from Old English oncuman, ancuman (“to arrive, come upon, happen”), from Proto-Germanic *anakwemaną (“to come to, come at, arrive”), equivalent to on- + come. Cognate with Dutch aankomen (“to arrive”), German ankommen (“to arrive”), Swedish ankomma (“to arrive”).
From Middle English oncome (“an attack”), equivalent to on- + come. Compare Old English ancuman (“to arrive, come upon, happen”). More at ancome, income.
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