Part 5730

<h1>Incumbrancer</h1> <Xpage=749>

<hw>In*cum"bran*cer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>One who holds <?/<?/ incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.</def>

<i>Kent.</i>

<h1>Incumbrous</h1> <Xpage=749>

<hw>In*cum"brous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>encombros</ets>.]</ety> <def>Cumbersome; troublesome.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>encombrous</asp>.]</altsp> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Incunabulum</h1> <Xpage=749>

<hw>In`cu*nab"u*lum</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Incunabula</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>incunabula</ets> cradle, birthplace, origin. See 1st <er>In-</er>, and <er>Cunabula</er>.]</ety> <def>A work of art or of human industry, of an early epoch; especially, a book printed before <sc>A. D.</sc> 1500.</def>

<h1>Incur</h1> <Xpage=749>

<hw>In*cur"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Incurred</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Incurring</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>incurrere</ets> to run into or toward; pref. <ets>in-</ets> in + <ets>currere</ets> to run. See <er>Current</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable or subject to; to bring down upon one's self; to encounter; to contract; <as>as, to <ex>incur</ex> debt, danger, displeasure<?/ penalty, responsibility, etc.</as></def>

<blockquote>I know not what I shall <b>incur</b> to pass<?/<?/, Having no warrant. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To render liable or subject to; to occasion.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Lest you <b>incur</b> me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life. <i>Chapman.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Incur</h1> <Xpage=749>

<hw>In*cur"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To pass; to enter.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Light is discerned by itself because by itself it <b>incurs</b> into the eye. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Incurability</h1> <Xpage=749>

<hw>In*cur`a*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>incurabilit\'82</ets> incurability, LL. <ets>incurabilitas</ets> negligence.]</ety> <def>The state of being uncurable; irremediableness.</def>

<i>Harvey.</i>

<h1>Incurable</h1> <Xpage=749>

<hw>In*cur"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>incurable</ets>, L. <ets>incurabilis</ets>. See <er>In-</er> not, and <er>Curable</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; <as>as, an <ex>incurable</ex> disease</as>.</def>

<blockquote>A scirrh is not absolutely <b>incurable</b>. <i>Arbuthnot.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; <as>as, <ex>incurable</ex> evils</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Rancorous and <b>incurable</b> hostility. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>They were laboring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost <b>incurable</b> ignorance. <i>Sir J. Stephen.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Irremediable; remediless; irrecoverable; irretrievable; irreparable; hopeless.</syn>