oncome

oncomeverb詞源 1

• 1

  rareTo arrive; come to; come on.

  • 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 [...]
  • A trip from you. Taken. . . . Then time oncame [...]

oncomenoun詞源 2

• 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.
  • "She often has oncomes," explained Angus shortly. "But now we will tell, for though but children, we talk straighter."
• 5

  dialectalA mysterious disease or ailment.

  • 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.
• 6

  dialectalA heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst.

• 7

  The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.