oncome

oncome
1. verb

This said, and shaking his long dark spear, then forward he hurld it Into the fullround buckler of Priamides Alexander; Right thro his glittering shield oncame the redoubtable warspear, On still advanced, throughpiercing his breastplates various-art-work [...]

2. noun
a) Advent, arrival, approach; onset

I see the dawn or rather I feel the oncome of it.

b) The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.

On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.


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