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.).
| c 1175 Lamb. 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. 1570 Levins Manip. 161/46 An Oncome, disease, morbus aduentitius. 1818 Scott Br. Lamm. xxxi, Especially in oncomes, as the Scotch call them, or mysterious diseases, which baffle the regular physician. |
† 2. An attack, invasion. Obs.
| a 1340 Hampole Psalter civ. 20 comm., To gouern þe land and beware wiþ oncomys. |
3. Coming on; = oncoming n.
| 1898 Allbutt'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.)