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verb

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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... fellow-travellers; the doctor paid not the slightest attention to them, though it was clearly his duty to do so. I was glad, therefore, to be able to do what I could for them, and ordered one or two tempting things from the dinner-table to be set aside for them, which I afterwards took to them myself, incurring thereby the decided disfavour of the French officers, who churlishly resented what they considered my interference. Possibly it might have been against the rules of the vessel; still, I felt it to be only a ...

— Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo • W. Cope Devereux

... "Thereby incurring his life-long hatred and enmity, so that years afterward, he sought to wreak his revenge upon you by stealing from the wrecked train, where your daughter lost her life, the little child who would otherwise have been your solace ...

— The Award of Justice - Told in the Rockies • A. Maynard Barbour

... would not bother going home. He explained to Watson later that he considered it crooked to tamper with the travel-slip and thought he would be a cad to let the manager run the chance of further incurring head ...

— A Canadian Bankclerk • J. P. Buschlen

... troops, by telling them that the deserters were assuredly ill-informed of the true state of affairs at Lima, as he had letters from the principal inhabitants of that city, assuring him that, with fifty horsemen only, he might easily bring his enterprize to a happy conclusion, and without incurring the smallest danger, as all the colonists entertained the same sentiments with him, and only needed his countenance and direction to declare themselves. He continued his march accordingly, but very slowly and with infinite difficulty, on ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. IV. • Robert Kerr

... been thereby averted, yet unqualified disapproval of the demand for guarantees might have rallied to his side all those who, in the Cabinet, the Chamber, and the country, were undoubtedly opposed to incurring terrible risks in order to obtain pledges against future contingencies. Among the late Lord Acton's Historical Essays there is a remarkable paper on 'The Causes of the Franco-Prussian War,' in ...

— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall

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