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Incur v. t. (past & past part. incurred; pres. part. incurring)

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, to incur debt, danger, displeasure, penalty, responsibility, etc. "I know not what I shall incur to pass it, Having no warrant."

To render liable or subject to; to occasion. (Obs.) "Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life."

Incur v. i. To pass; to enter. (Obs.) "Light is discerned by itself because by itself it incurs into the eye."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incur" Quotes from Famous Books

... submission of the Clan Torna whose country lies in mid-Kerry from Sliabh Luachra [Slieve Lougher] to the sea. From his seed, moreover, will spring kings to the end of time, unless indeed they refuse me due allegiance, and if, at any time, they incur displeasure of my successors their kingship and dominion will come to an end." This prophecy has ...

— The Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore • Saint Mochuda

... me lose one minute of time, nor incur any unnecessary expense, that I may have the more to spend for God. When I am abroad let me be desirous of doing good; let me have in readiness some subject of contemplation and endeavour to improve my time ...

— Religion in Earnest - A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York • John Lyth

... the scene with moist eyes. He was generally a man of prompt decision, and he well knew that he would incur by this act the charge of vacillation. It was a noble self-denial in him to be willing to do so, but it would have required an iron heart to resist such earnest supplications, and he was more than repaid ...

— Eric • Frederic William Farrar

... more and more that his lips were sealed; and as to the danger which Murray would incur—well, he was a soldier well mounted, and he ...

— In Honour's Cause - A Tale of the Days of George the First • George Manville Fenn

... had been dreaming of her cousins and the young Hauteserres; she saw them in peril. Her beautiful eyes grew fixed and glassy as her mind thus warned dwelled on the dangers they were about to incur in Paris. She rose suddenly and went to her bedroom without speaking. Her bedroom was the best in the house; next came a dressing-room and an oratory, in the tower which faced towards the forest. Soon after she had left the salon the dogs barked, the bell of the small gate rang, and Durieu ...

— An Historical Mystery • Honore de Balzac

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