Come v. World English Historical Dictionary

Come v. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2022. Come v. Pa. t. came; pa. pple. come. Forms: see below. [A common Teut. str. vb.: OE. cuman, pa. t. cuóm, cóm, pl. cwómon, cómon, pa. pple. cumen, cymen = OFris. kuman (koman), kom, kômon, kimen, OS. cuman, quam, quâmun, cuman (MDu. comen, quam, quamen (Flem. also cam, camen), comen; Du. komen, kwaam, kwamen, gekomen); OHG. queman, coman, (chomen), and cuman, pa. t. quam, cham, chom, pl. quâmun, châmun, pa. pple. quoman, koman, chomen, kumen (MHG. komen, pa. t. quam, kam, kom, pl. quâmen, kâmen, kômen, pple. komen; mod.G. kommen, pa. t. kam, kamen, pple. gekommen); ON. koma, pa. t. kvam, kom, pl. kvǫmom, kómom, pple. komenn (Sw. komma, kom, kommo, kommen, Da. komme, kom, kommet); Goth. qiman, pa. t. qam, pl. qêmum, pple. qumans; all:—OTeut. *kweman and kuman, kwam, kwæmum-, kumano- :—Aryan *gwem-, gwm-, cf. Skr. and Zend. gam, Gr. βαίνω (:—*βάνjω:—*gwmjo-), L. venio (:—*gwemjô), etc.

1   The present tense had two stem-forms in Teutonic, viz. kwem- and kum-, repr. pre-Teutonic gwem-, gwm-, respectively; the latter being commonly considered an ‘aorist-present.’ Of these, Gothic shows only the former; OHG. shows both; OE. only the kum- stem. The OE. cum- has remained to the present day, being regularly represented by the current kvm (in north. Eng. kum); the spelling cum was also frequent to 17th c., but the ME. scribal usage of writing o for u before m, n, u (v), introduced in 13th c. the spelling come, which finally prevailed: cf. some, son, tongue, love, etc. This use of o in ME. alike for the u of the present and pa. pple., and the ō of the past, was a defect of the writing which needs to be kept in mind.

2   The pa. t. had in WGer. the typical forms kwam, kwâmun; in OE., as in the parallel vb. niman to take, the long vowel of the plural was taken into the sing., giving cuóm, cuómon, later cóm, cómon, which in southern Eng. lived on through the ME. period as cōm (coom, come), cōmen (cōme, coome, coom). But just as, in late WS., nóm, nómon, became nam, námon, so in late Northumbrian cóm, cómon appear to have become cam, cāmen, which are found in the earliest specimens of northern ME. These forms were used by Wyclif, and soon afterwards drove out com, come, which hardly appear after 1500 in the literary language, though still widely prevalent in midland and southern dialects.

3   The pa. pple. cumen was used by some down to the 17th c., when it was still written comen, com·n. As usual, however, the final n began to be lost in the 13th c. (esp. in the form with prefix ycomen, ycome), whereby this part was at length leveled with the infinitive as come. Notwithstanding a strong tendency in 16–17th c. to conform it to the weak conjugation as comed (a form which has established itself dialectally, e.g., in south of Scotland), the clipt form come (kvm) remains that of standard English.

4   In OE., umlaut forms of the present stem occurred in the normal 2 and 3 sing. cymes(t), cymeð, cymþ, which survived in early ME. kimest, kimeð; also in the pres. conj. cyme, and in the pa. pple. cymen (:—*kumino-); in ONorthumbrian, umlaut forms were more or less frequent all through the present stem, but these do not appear in ME. (See Sievers in Paul u. Braune’s Beitr., VIII. 81.)

5   The perfect tenses were originally formed with the auxiliary be, which is still retained to express the resulting state; in the expression of action have has gradually displaced be: see BE v. 14 b.]

6   A.  Forms.

7   1.  Present stem: a. Infin. 1 cuman, 2–4 cumen, 3–5 cume, 4–6 cum; 3–4 comen, 3– come. (Also 3–4 kumen, komen, 4 commen, 4–6 comme, 4–7 com, 5 comyn, -in, cumne, cumnyn, 6 cumme, coome.)

8 Beowulf, 494. Cuman ongunnan.

9 c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 19. Þet he sculde cumen.

10 c. 1200.  Winteney, Rule St. Benet (1888), 80. Cumende … toforan þam abbode.

11 c. 1205.  Lay., 1156. Þa þingen þa weren to kumen.

12 a. 1300.  Signs bef. Judgm., in E. E. P. (1862), 10. Þat he sold come.

13 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 24893 (Cott.). Quen þou cums [v.r. c. 1340 comes, comis].

14 c. 1440.  Apol. Loll., 37. Ȝif þu cum til a frend. Ibid., 92. Wan þu cumyst in to þe lond.

15 c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 108/1. Cum, or come [K. cvmnyn, H. cvmne] Venio.

16 c. 1450.  Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866), 247. Fro heuene to comyn.

17 1486.  Bk. St. Albans, E j a. Where that ye cum.

18 1559.  Mirr. Mag., Mowbray’s Banishm., xxii. To Englande not to coome.

19 1588.  Allen, Admon. (1842), 36. Now did he threaten to cum.

20 1657.  J. Smith, Myst. Rhet., 79. Cicero comming to Appius.

21 1808.  Scott, Marm., V. xii. O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war?

22   b.  Pres. Ind. 2nd & 3rd sing. 1 cym(e)st, cymþ, cymmeð, 1–3 cumeþ, 2–3 kimest, kimeð; 3– comest, cometh, comes.

23 c. 825.  Vesp. Psalter, c[i]. 2. Ðonne þu cymes to me. Ibid., xxxvi. 13. Cymeð dæʓ his.

24 c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 21. Þenne kimeð þe deofel.

25 a. 1225.  Juliana, 63. Kimest king o domesdei.

26 1340.  Ayenb., 87. Þe ilke vrydom comþ of grace.

27 c. 1350.  Will. Palerne, 330. Whanne þou komest to kourt.

28 c. 1450.  Guy Warw. (C.), 11330. A man þat comyth onys therynne.

29   2.  Pa. t. α. 1 cwóm, cuóm, 1 cóm, 2–6 cōm, 4–5 coom, coome, come. Pl. 1 cwómon, quómon, cómon, 2–5 cōmen, 4–6 come, (4 com, coom, 5 comyn, -un, cum; mod. dial. coome, come).

30 c. 855.  O. E. Chron., Introd. Hie up cuomon. Ibid., an. 855. Æfter þam to his leode cuom … and ymb ii ʓear þæs þe he in Francum com he ʓefór.

31 c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 19. He com among us. Ibid., 9. Heo comen … to þan sinagoge.

32 c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 1979. His sunes comen him to sen.

33 c. 1300.  Cursor M., 17288, Resurrection, 163 (Cott.). He come not in company. Ibid. (c. 1340), 8958 (Trin.). She coom in at þulke ȝate. Ibid., 10127 (Fairf.). How prophecijs comyn [v.r. com, coom, cam] to end.

34 c. 1388.  in Wyclif’s Sel. Wks., III. 458. He coome not to seche his owne glorie.

35 a. 1400[?].  Arthur, 512. Þis lond þat he coom fram.

36 c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 1004. Þai … Comyn euyn to the kyng. Ibid., 1021. To these kynges he come.

37 c. 1400.  Maundev. (Roxb.), xxv. 119. Till þai comme at þe emperour.

38 c. 1420.  Avow. Arth., xxxi. Thay … Comun to the kinge.

39 1523.  Sir W. Bulmer, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. I. I. 328. He com to me when the water was hyg.

40 1854.  W. Gaskell, Lect. Lanc. Dial., 24 (Lanc. Gloss.). A Lancashire man does not say he ‘came,’ but he ‘coome.’

41 1888.  W. Somerset Word-bk., Come pa. t.: came is unknown.

42   B.  3–6 north. cam, (kam), 5– came. Also 4 kem. Pl. 3–5 north. camen, (kamen), 4– came, (north. cam).

43 c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 416. Þan caim [= Cain] of Eue cam.

44 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 677 (Gött.). Þe bestis cam him all aboute. Ibid., 12615 (Gött.). Scho came [v.r. com, coom] into a skole gangand.

45 c. 1320.  Sir Beues (1885), 2571. Whan he to londe kem.

46 c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 158. Þe messengers kamen to þe kyng ysaak.

47 c. 1370[?].  Robt. Cicyle (Halliw.), 57. To Rome came the aungelle soone.

48 1388.  Wyclif, Matt. ix. 28. Whanne he cam in to the hous, the blynde men camen to hym.

49 1516.  in E. Lodge, Illust. Brit. Hist. (1791), I. 12. The Quene of Scotts cam to Enfyld.

50 1521.  Fisher, Wks., 332. Saynt paule, whiche cam after them.

51 1532.  Bp. Longland, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., III. 97, I. 252. Itt came in to my house.

52 1841.  Lane, Arab. Nts., I. 114. Thou camest in two days and a half.

53   γ.  occas. cum (?), cumen.

54 c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 1065. To Lothes hus he cumen.

55   δ.  dial. 8–9 comed, coom’d.

56 1800–44.  Pegge, Anecd. Eng. Lang. (ed. 3), 188. Com’d in the London dialect is used both for the preterit came and for our false participle come.

57 1864.  Tennyson, North. Farmer (Old Style), v. An’ I hallus coom’d to’s choorch afoor moy Sally wur dead.

58 1879.  Miss Jackson, Shropshire Word-bk., p. lii. Pres. come; Pret. come, comed; Pa. pple. comen.

59   3.  Pa. pple. α. 1–4 cumen, 2–3 icumen, ikumen, 4 cummyn, -in; 3–5 i-comen, 3–7, 9 dial. comen. Also 4 y-comen, comin, -inne, commun, cummen, -in, -un, 4–5 commen, comun, 4–6 comyn, commyn, 5 cumne, 6 cummen, 6–7 com’n, 7 comne.

60 c. 898.  O. E. Chron., an. 894. Wæs Hæsten þa þær cumen. Ibid. (1154), (Laud MS.), an. 1135. En mang þis was his nefe cumen to Engle-land.

61 a. 1240.  Ureisun, 112, in Cott. Hom., 197. Ich am to ðe ikumen.

62 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 7991 (Cott.). Commen i am. Ibid. (c. 1340), 22303 (Edin.). Cominne ic am.

63 1576.  Woolton, Chr. Manual (Parker Soc.), 4. Which thing should have comen to pass.

64 1605.  Bacon, Adv. Learn., I. iv. § 12. Hence it hath comen, that in arts Mechanicall, the first deviser coms shortest.

65 1633.  T. James, Voy., 106. We … were now comne into such a tumbling sea.

66 1687.  P. Henry, Diaries & Lett. (1882), 355. Many who are com’n lately out of Ireland.

67 1879.  [see 2 δ above].

68   β.  4–5 cum, icome, 5 ycome, com, 4– come.

69 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 10575 (Gött.). Quen anna was cum.

70 c. 1435.  Torr. Portugal, 1236. To the kyng the thoght com was.

71 c. 1450.  Merlin, x. 149. Is oure socour than I-come?

72 1712.  Steele, Spect., 496. I am just come from Tunbridge.

73 1815.  Scott, Guy M., liv. The Hour’s come and the Man.

74   γ.  6 cumd, -de, -ed, -it, -yt. cummed, commed, -yd, 6–7 com’d, 6–8, 9 dial. comed, coom’d.

75 c. 1525.  in Lingard, Hist. Eng., VI. 342. Dr. London is soddenlye commyd unto me.

76 a. 1572.  Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. 1846, I. 371. His iniquitie was cumed to full rypenes.

77 1614.  T. White, Martyrd. St. George, B iv b. Com’d to the Temple, Georg … Surueys the Idols.

78 1649.  G. Daniel, Trinarch., Rich. II., lvi. Wee … Are com’d.

79 1652.  J. Wetherall, Discov. Opin. False Brethren, 60. I might have com’d.

80 1705.  S. Whately, in W. S. Perry, Hist. Coll. Amer. Col. Ch. What need they have comed over night then?

81 1848.  [see 43 d].

82   B.  Signification.

83   gen. An elementary intransitive verb of motion, expressing movement towards or so as to reach the speaker, or the person spoken to, or towards a point where the speaker in thought or imagination places himself, or (when he is not himself in question) towards the person who forms the subject of his narrative. It is thus often used in opposition to go, although the latter does not primarily involve direction, and is often used without reference thereto. Come is also used merely of the accomplishment of the movement, involved in reaching or becoming present at any place or point; and sometimes the entrance upon motion, involved in issuing from a source, is alone, or at least chiefly, thought of (cf. 11).

84   It is rarely quasi-transitive by ellipsis: see VI.

85   I.  Of motion in space.

86               *of actual motion.

87   1.  In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent.

88   a.  To move towards, approach.

89 c. 825.  Vesp. Psalter, cxxv[i]. 6. Gongende eodon and weopun sendende sed he[ara], cumende soðlice cumað in wynsumnisse beorende reopan heara.

90 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 3992. O folk tua flokes cums wit me. Ibid., 4176. Þan sagh þai cumand be þe stret Marchands.

91 c. 1380.  Sir Ferumb., 1637. Þey … hiderward buþ now comyng.

92 c. 1420.  Avow. Arth., xvi. He mette the bore comande.

93 c. 1489.  Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, viii. 195. Here comyn our enmyes.

94 1590.  Spenser, F. Q., I. ix. 25. Loe! he comes, he comes fast after mee.

95 1596.  Shaks., Tam. Shr., III. ii. 38. Bap. Is he come?… Bion. He is comming. Bap. When will he be heere?

96 1784.  Cowper, Task, IV. 5. O’er yonder bridge … He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered boots.

97 1859.  Tennyson, Geraint & Enid, 975. Yonder comes a knight.

98   b.  esp. To reach by moving towards; hence, often merely, To arrive, present oneself.

99 c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Luke x. 35. Þonne ic cume ic hit forʓylde be.

100 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 5050 (Gött.). Ruben … had mekil ioy quen þai war comin.

101 c. 1386.  Chaucer, Sec. Nun’s T., 242. And with that word, Tiburce, his brother come.

102 c. 1450.  Merlin, i. 7. She sente after this woman, and she com.

103 1528.  in Strype, Eccl. Mem., I. App. xxiv. 64. He was very sory, that he could not cumme soner … and now cummen he wold not faile to do the best he could.

104 1631.  Milton, Epit. Mch’ness Winchester, 19. He at their invoking came.

105 1782.  Cowper, J. Gilpin, 167. Say why bareheaded you are come, Or why you come at all?

106 1854.  Tennyson, To Maurice. Come, when no graver cares employ, Godfather, come and see your boy.

107   2.  Also said of the hitherward motion of involuntary agents:

108   a.  of things having (apparently) a motion of their own, as water, wind, etc. Naut. said spec. of the direction or nature of the wind.

109 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 1042 (Gött.). Þat might neuer flod cum þar ney.

110 1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. xxiv. (1495), 133. The humours comm fro the heed to the pypes of the throte.

111 c. 1430.  Cookery Bks. (E.E.T.S.), 17. Boyle it, an when yt komyth on hy, a-lye it with wyne.

112 1549.  Compl. Scotl., 34. Quhen the rane cummis.

113 1633.  T. James, Voy., 23. The winde came Easterly: so that we could not budge.

114 1653.  H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., xxx. 108. This river … comes from Tartaria, out of a lake, called Fanistor.

115 1669.  Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., I. 16. The Wind is fair … he comes well, as if he would stand.

116 1720.  De Foe, Capt. Singleton xv. (1840), 256. The … arrows came thick among them.

117 c. 1790.  J. Willock, Voy., ii. 54. On the twenty-ninth, the wind coming favourable we put to sea.

118 1870.  Tennyson, Window. Sun comes, moon comes, Time slips away.

119   b.  of things which are brought, or of persons brought without their own will. In many phrases, e.g., To come to bear: to be (or suffer itself to be) brought to bear: see BEAR v. 40, 32, BRING 8 f.

120 c. 1340.  Cursor M., 18479 (Trin.). A cloþinge is comen vs vp on.

121 1469.  in Arnolde, Chron. (1811), 117. To alle trewe cristen pepull to whom thys present wrytting shalbe come.

122 1574.  in W. H. Turner, Select. Rec. Oxford, 353. Sr Francis Knowils letter came as it were to bayle me.

123 1611.  Bible, Judg. xiii. 5. No rasor shall come on his head.

124 1667.  Pepys, Diary, 17 Aug. The play is the most ridiculous that sure ever came upon stage.

125 1720.  De Foe, Capt. Singleton, xi. (1840), 192. Her main topmast was come by the board.

126 1728.  R. Morris, Ess. Anc. Archit., 6. Architecture came to Rome … about 461 Years before Marcellus.

127 1745.  P. Thomas, Jrnl. Anson’s Voy., 282. Every one firing as fast as his Gun would come to bear.

128 a. 1786.  Cowper, Yearly Distress, 37. The dinner comes, and down they sit.

129 1805.  A. Duncan, Mariner’s Chron., III. 209. All her masts came immediately by the board.

130 1855.  A. Manning, Old Chelsea Bun-house, viii. 125. The Letter was not long a-coming.

131   c.  To move or be brought to a particular position; to fall or land on a part of the body, etc.

132 1804.  G. Rose, Diaries (1860), II. 193. The horse, on cantering down a … hill, came on his head.

133 1843.  Dickens, Chr. Carol, ii. He appeared to wink with his legs, and came upon his feet again without a stagger.

134 1889.  Chamb. Jrnl., 9 Nov., 725/2. She came to an abrupt halt.

135   3.  Constructions.

136   a.  With prepositions. The preposition naturally following come is to; instead of which, however, there may stand any other of more complex sense, in which the notion to is contained or involved, as into, unto, towards, against, on, upon, about, around, beside, near, above, beneath, before, behind, over, under the point of direction; before a person, a tribunal, etc.

137   Beside the notion of to expressed or understood, relations of other kinds may be considered; and these sometimes become the only ones actually considered or expressed, e.g., from the point left, across, along, through, by, over, under, up, down a route followed or things passed, with a companion or accompaniment, by, in a conveyance, for a thing wanted, after a person or thing followed or sought.

138 c. 975.  Rushw. Gosp., John iii. 26. Alle comon to him.

139 c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Luke xiv. 27. Se þe … cymð æfter me.

140 1154.  O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1132. Ðis ȝear com Henri King to þis land · þam com Henri abbot.

141 c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 1438. Eliezer him cam a-gon. Ibid., 2940. And comen biforen pharaon.

142 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 3356. Quat man es he þat cumand tilward us i se? Ibid., 12362. Þe leons com him all a-bute.

143 1382.  Wyclif, Mark v. 1. Thei camen ouer the wawe of the see into the cuntree of Genazareth.

144 c. 1386.  Chaucer, Prol., 23. At nyght were come in to that hostelrye.

145 c. 1450.  Merlin, iii. 45. The kynge come fro chirche.

146 1529.  More, Comf. agst. Trib., III. Wks. 1333/1. He causeth lyke a good husband man, his folke to come on fielde.

147 1667.  Pepys, Diary, 5 Oct. What base company of men comes among them.

148 a. 1714.  Burnet, Own Time, II. 30. She came on her way as far as Metz.

149 1720.  De Foe, Capt. Singleton, xii. 205. He came aboard my ship. Ibid., 205/1. A whole troop of old ones came about us at the noise.

150 1825.  Cobbett, Rur. Rides (1885), II. 1. We came through a fine flock of ewes.

151 1836.  Dickens, Sk. Boz, 6. Coming up the stairs. Ibid. (1843), Chr. Carol, iv. Come into the parlour.

152 1838.  Lytton, Alice, X. iii. The squire has only just come off a journey.

153 1848.  Mrs. Gaskell, M. Barton, xviii. I’ll come with you.

154 1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), V. 524. The stranger who comes from abroad.

155   ¶  The collocation of come with a particular preposition has often a specialized sense: e.g., to come by (a thing) = to acquire. For these see VIII.

156   b.  Come may be followed by the infin. of purpose, with to (formerly sometimes preceded by for, as still in vulgar use).

157 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 190 (Gött.). Mari … Com to wasse vr lauerdes fete.

158 1485.  Caxton, Paris & V., 17. Were comen for to see the feste.

159 1568.  Grafton, Chron., II. 89. They came to take him.

160 1607.  Walkington, Opt. Glass, i. (1664), 9. Charon and Atropos are com’d to call me away from my delicies.

161 1726.  Swift, Gulliver (1869), 183/1. Those who came to visit me.

162 1843.  Dickens, Chr. Carol, i. When will you come to see me?

163 1859.  Tennyson, Guinevere, 529. I did not come to curse thee, Guinevere.

164   c.  Purpose or business is also expressed by the vbl. sb. with a (= on).

165 16[?].  Evelyn, Mem. (1857), III. 141. He suspected I came a birding.

166 1846.  Tennyson, Dora, 140. I never came a-begging for myself.

167   d.  The purposed sequel or consequence of coming is joined by and.

168 c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., John i. 39. He cwæþ to him cumað & geseoþ.

169 1382.  Wyclif, Luke xx. 16. He schal come, and lese these tilieres.

170 a. 1498.  Warkw., Chron. (Camden Soc.), 5. Every manne was suffred to come and speke withe hym.

171 1535.  Coverdale, Ps. lxxv[i]. 9. All nacions … shall come and worshipe before the o Lorde.

172 1660.  Trial Regic., 196. Several persons came and offered themselves.

173 1704.  Pope, Summer, 63. Come, lovely nymph, and bless the silent hours.

174 1812.  H. & J. Smith, Rej. Addr., Macbeth Travestie, iii. Diddle diddle, Good Duncan, pray come and be killed.

175 1854.  [see 1 b].

176 Mod.  Come and see us in our new home. He came and bought one.

177   † e.  Formerly the infin. was used without and.

178 c. 1430.  Lydg., Bochas, IV. ix. (1554), 107 b. He must come flatter.

179 c. 1485.  Digby Myst. (1882), III. 618. I be-seche yow … thys daye to com dyne at my hows.

180 1539.  Cranmer, Matt. xxviii. 6. Come se [Tindale come and se] the place where that the Lord was layed.

181 1542.  Udall, Erasm. Apophth., 299 b. As many as wer in the citee betweene sixteen and sixtie should … come follow hym.

182 1598.  Shaks., Merry W., IV. ii. 80. Quicke, quicke, wee’le come dresse you straight. Ibid. (1604), Oth., III. iv. 50. I haue sent to bid Cassio come speake with you.

183 1647.  W. Browne, trans. Polexander, II. 55. Spaniards, which seem’d to have come offer themselves to your sword.

184   f.  An action accompanying the hitherward motion (and often constituting the principal notion) was originally expressed by a following infinitive; but now by a following participle in -ing.

185 Beowulf, 240 (Gr.). ʓe … þe þus brontne ceol ofer lagustræte lædan cwomon.

186 a. 1000.  Crist, 902 (Gr.). Sunnan leoma cymeþ scynan.

187 c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 81. A vuhel com flon from houene.

188 c. 1205.  Lay., 25525. Þer comen seilien … scipes.

189 c. 1290.  Saints’ Lives (Laud MS. 1887), St. Cuthbert, 5. Þare cam gon a luyte child.

190 c. 1380.  Sir Ferumb., 1554. As þese frensche men come ryde on message fro Charloun. Ibid., 2333. Wiþ þat cam renne sire Bruyllant.

191 c. 1450.  Guy Warw. (C.), 605. There come prykyng dewke Raynere.

192 1485.  Caxton, Chas. Gt., 163. He sawe rychard come rydyng vpon an hors.

193 1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. lxxvi. 97. The Scottes came fleyng ouer the dales.

194 1678.  Bunyan, Pilgr., I. 44. There came two Men running against him amain.

195 1726.  Swift, Gulliver (1869), 205/1. The nag came galloping towards me.

196 1832.  Tennyson, Lady of Shalott, II. iii. The knights come riding two and two.

197 1843.  Dickens, Chr. Carol, i. The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole.

198 1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 24. You come asking in what wisdom … differs from the other sciences.

199   g.  There may be an adverbial accusative of the way pursued or the distance traversed. Come your ways: see WAY.

200 1600.  Shaks., A. Y. L., I. ii. 221. Come your waies.

201 1773.  Goldsm., Stoops to Conq., I. ii. We were told it was but forty miles … and we have come above threescore. Ibid. The road you came. Ibid., V. They are coming this way.

202 1887.  Stevenson, Underwoods, I. xi. 23. We have come the primrose way.

203 Mod.  We have come many miles by train.

204   4.  a. Instead of the place of destination, the purpose or function may be introduced by to.

205 1440.  J. Shirley, Dethe K. James, 19. His servantes … shuld … haf cumne to his socoure.

206 1568.  Grafton, Chron., II. 474. If he would personally come to a communication.

207 1596.  Spenser, F. Q., IV. xii. 4. He might not … with th’ eternall Gods to bancket come.

208 1596.  Shaks., Merch. V., IV. i. 223. A Daniel come to iudgement.

209 1748.  Smollett, Rod. Rand., xxii. Coming to the relief of a damsel in distress.

210 1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 94. The promised deliverer of their race, would come to the rescue.

211   b.  Conversely, the name of a place (with to, into) may include, or simply stand for, what is done there; as in to come to the BAR, into COURT, into MARKET, to the HAMMER, etc. (See these.)

212 1781.  Ann. Reg., Hist. Europe, 199*/1. The matter came into the court of King’s Bench.

213 1825.  New Monthly Mag., XIV. 19. When I came to the bar a man’s success depended upon his exertions.

214 1883.  Black, Yolande, II. ix. 170. Monaglen is about to come into the market.

215 1887.  Mrs. Riddell, Nun’s Curse, II. ii. 39. Amos won’t let the matter come into court if he can help it.

216   c.  To come into the world: to be born.

217 [1382.  Wyclif, John i. 9. It was verri liȝt which liȝtneth ech man comynge into this world. Ibid., xviii. 37. To this thing I am born, and to this I cam in to the world, that I bere witnessing to treuthe.]

218 c. 1510.  W. de Worde, Gesta Rom., A vij. Euery man cometh poore and naked in to this worlde frome his moders bely.

219 1849.  Dickens, Dav. Copp., i. He died … six months before I came into the world.

220             **  of attributed motion.

221   5.  Of things: To extend, reach, or project with an extremity, from one point to or towards another.

222 c. 1400.  Lanfranc’s Cirurg. (MS. A.), 24. From þe brayn comen .vii. peire cordes … alle þe cordis þat comen of þe brayn.

223 15[?].  Prose Legends, in Anglia, VIII. 151. A cote … comynge to the helys.

224 1547.  Boorde, Introd. Knowl., 172. The cyte is well walled, and there commeth to it an arme of the See.

225 1611.  Coryat, Crudities, 294. Yron beames that came athwart or acrosse from one side to the other.

226 1675.  in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1883), I. 286. The … new building to come noe further in the street than the old … Channell doth extend.

227 1703.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc., 174. Wooden Screws entred into wooden Nuts … and coming through against the Rest.

228 Mod.  Does the railway come near the town?

229   b.  To come to an end: to end, terminate, be concluded. To come to a point: to terminate in a point, etc.

230 1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. ii. (Tollem. MS.). Þe heed is sumdel comynge narow, and hyȝe.

231 1694.  Narborough, Acc. Sev. Late Voy., I. (1711), 31. Their hind part tapers till it comes to a point.

232 1860.  Tyndall, Glac., I. viii. 58. The fissure at length came to an end.

233   6.  Things are said to come (to a person), come in sight, into view, etc., to which, or in sight of which, he comes as he advances.

234 1825.  New Monthly Mag., XIII. 373. Bethlehem soon came in view.

235 1842.  Tait’s Mag., IX. 43/1. The house-keeper’s and servants’ rooms came next. Ibid. (1850), XVII. 28/1. Pianosa now came in sight.

236 1879.  Whyte-Melville, Riding Recoll., xi. (ed. 7), 201. Jump off … to walk up and down the hills with him as they come.

237 1889.  G. G. A. Murray, Gobi or Shamo, xxi. 357 The sparse fields of stubble come quite as a relief to the eye.

238   b.  By extensions of this, things are said to come in one’s way, within one’s reach, under one’s notice, within the scope of a measure, and the like; also to come in a particular position or order with relation to contiguous things, to inclusion in a classification, etc., as to come on such a page of a book, before or after other things, under a heading, etc. See esp. come under, 46.

239 1687.  Burnet, Contn. Refl. Varillas, 68. There is but one Doctor, unless Fisher comes into the Account.

240 1818.  Cobbett, Pol. Reg., XXXIII. 680. Instances that have come within my own knowledge.

241 1823.  New Monthly Mag., IX. 423/2. Such books as came within his reach.

242 1874.  Stubbs, Const. Hist. Eng., I. iii. 53. Beneath these comes the free class of labourers.

243 1876.  F. G. Fleay, Shaks. Manual, I. ix. 86. It does not come within the scope of this book to treat of any author except Shakespeare critically.

244 1877.  Scribn. Mag., XV. 199/1. This did not come into the category.

245 1885.  Sir R. Baggallay, in Law Rep., 14 Q. B. Div. 879. This case did not come within the terms of [the] Order.

246   7.  The motion of a limb, weapon, or tool is often spoken of as that of the person who comes with it (i.e., brings it) to such a position; cf. come down with, come out with.

247 1699.  Dampier, Voy., II. I. viii. 155. We set our Sails again … and ordered the man at Helm not to come to the southward of the E. S. E.

248 1787.  Advice to Officers Brit. Army (ed. 9), 128. The same effect may be produced by coming from the shoulder to the order at two motions.

249 1883.  Army Corps Orders, in Standard, 22 March, 3/3. The whole of the Infantry will come to the ‘shoulder’ by battalions on entering the saluting base.

250   II.  Where the notion of movement in space passes into or is sunk in other notions.

251             *  To come (to a person, etc.).

252   8.  said of things which one receives, or becomes possessed of: = To fall to one.

253 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 18409. Hu come þe sa grathli gode?

254 c. 1382.  Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 502. Þo moste heresye þat God suffred cum to his Chirche.

255 1545.  Ascham, Toxoph., I. (Arb.), 31. The profite that may come thereby to many other.

256 1582.  Hester, Secr. Phiorav., I. vi. 7. Bothe [Measles and Small Pox] come with an accident of a Fever.

257 a. 1593.  H. Smith, Serm. (1637), 612. Riches come, and yet the man is not pleased.

258 1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 269. Tell me … whether it [virtue] comes to man by nature.

259   b.  esp. of possessions that one gets in due course, as by inheritance or other legal process.

260 a. 1400.  Cato’s Morals, 37, in Cursor M., App. iv. Þat comis þe be heritage.

261 1542.  James V., in Scott, Tales Grandfather, Ser. I. xxviii. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass.

262 1674.  trans. Machiavel’s Florentine Hist., I. 35. Till such time as the Papacy came to Alexander the Third.

263 1687.  Burnet, Contn. Refl. Varillas, 106. The Succession came to the Dutchess of Suffolk’s Daughters.

264 1766.  Hist. Goody Two-Shoes, I. (1881), 5. Until the Estate by Marriage and by Death came into the Hands of Sir Timothy.

265 1887.  Baring-Gould, Gaverocks, I. xviii. 257. Stanbury … belongs to us. It came through my mother.

266   9.  of events, casualties, kinds of fortune, etc. = To happen or occur to, to befall.

267 Beowulf, 23 (Gr.). Þonne wiʓ cume leode ʓelæsten.

268 c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 15. Þet al þas wrake is icumen ouer alle þeode.

269 c. 1300.  Beket, 1088. For him was to cominge sorwe ynouȝ.

270 1406.  E. E. Wills (1882), 13. Yer ought come to Thomas Roos.

271 c. 1450.  Guy Warw. (C.), 4944. And euyll chawnce came to vs ryght.

272 1611.  Bible, Eccl. ix. 2. All things come alike to all: there is one euent to the righteous and to the wicked [etc.]. Ibid., Mark ix. 21. And he asked his father, Howe long is it agoe since this [foming] came vnto him? And he said, Of a child.

273 1634.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 182. No more harme comming to either.

274 1748.  Richardson, Clarissa (1811), IV. 329. What’s come-to mine, that he writes not to my last?

275 1833.  New Monthly Mag., XXXVIII. 334. Ill come … to the false tongue of the deceiver, that can desert the wished and the lovely.

276 1856.  J. H. Newman, Callista, 86. I don’t know what has come to the gate since I was here.

277 1888.  McCarthy & Mrs. C. Praed, Ladies’ Gallery, I. ii. 44. Whatever comes to me, you are safe enough.

278   10.  of sensuous or mental impressions.

279   a.  of sights, sounds, and other sensuous impressions.

280 a. 1340.  Cursor M., 10514 (Cott.). Þi gerning god and þi praier Er cummin vn-to godds ere.

281 a. 1450.  Knt. de la Tour (1868), 11. There come a vision to her in a night.

282 1483.  Caxton, G. de la Tour, A vj b. A voys cam sayeng … make clene this plater.

283 1562.  Turner, Herbal, II. 141 b. Other kindes … of the gardin smilax then have cummed to my syght.

284 1832.  Tennyson, Mariana in S., viii. There came a sound as of the sea.

285 1849.  Tait’s Mag., XVI. 171/1. A knock came to his door.

286 1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 432. The same dream came to me sometimes in one form, and sometimes in another.

287   b.  of thoughts, notions, and the like. To come into one’s head: to occur to one. Also to come to one’s knowledge.

288 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 6602 (Cott.). Ne neuer come it yow in thoght. Ibid., 28332. Quen idel thoght me come and vain.

289 c. 1400.  Maundev. (Roxb.), xxxiv. 155. It coome to my mynde.

290 1483.  Cath. Angl., 72. To Come to mynde, occurrere.

291 1680.  Bunyan, Mr. Badman (1772), 182. The book that he had written came into his mind.

292 1711.  Steele, Spect., No. 254, ¶ 3. I wish it may never come into your Head to imitate those … Creatures.

293 1726.  Swift, Gulliver (1869), 216/1. It never came once into my thoughts.

294 1850.  Tait’s Mag., XVII. 684/1. A pretty incident … came to his knowledge.

295 1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), IV. 257. The truth must often come to a man through others.

296 1889.  Eng. Illust. Mag., Dec., 259. It came into my head to jump aloft.

297 1903.  Gertrude Atherton, Senator North, xxiii. 244. The idea came to me that I must tell him, and I believed that it came straight from the Lord.

298             **  To come from a source, etc.

299   11.  a. as anything from a source: To flow, emanate, be derived from, of.

300 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 308. Þe hali gost comms of hem tua. Ibid. (c. 1340), 9579 (Fairf.). To hym that þe falshed comyþ fro Ayen to hym let yt go.

301 c. 1400.  Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 7 (MS. A). Surgerie … comeþ, of siros … an hand, & gyros … þat is worchinge in englisch.

302 1535.  Coverdale, Ps. lxi[i]. 1. Of him commeth my helpe.

303 1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., III. ii. 78. Accommodated, it comes of Accommodo: very good, a good Phrase.

304 1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 413. This wine commeth of the grape about the towne Forum Appij.

305 1791.  ‘G. Gambado,’ Ann. Horsem. (1809), Pref. 53. Any thing more that comes from the pen of Geoffrey Gambado.

306 1826.  Ann. Reg., Hist. Europe, 101/2. The present motion … came from a gentleman of that country.

307 1879.  M. J. Guest, Lect. Hist. Eng., xv. 142. Words which come originally from the Latin, and which the French gave to us.

308   b.  as progeny, offspring, descendants from a parent or ancestor: To descend. Const. of, from.

309 c. 1250.  Hymn Virg., in Trin. Coll. Hom., App. 256. Þu ert icumen of heȝe kunne.

310 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 2566. Þe sede þat coms o þe.

311 c. 1400.  Maundev. (Roxb.), xxiv. 109. Þe folk of Tartre come of þe kynreden of Cham.

312 1475.  Caxton, Jason, 77. If of Appollo and of mena cam a sone that sone sholde succede to the royame.

313 1570–6.  Lambarde, Peramb. Kent (1826), 7. Mankinde that came of the loines of Sem, Cham, and Iapheth.

314 1640.  G. Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. He that comes of a hen must scrape.

315 1712.  Steele, Spect., No. 526, ¶ 3. Any young gentleman, who is come of honest parents.

316 1849.  C. Brontë, Shirley, i. Come of gentle kin.

317 1878.  Scribn. Mag., XV. 583/1. I came from a race of fishers.

318   c.  as an effect from its cause. Also of (by).

319 a. 1225.  Ancren Riwle, 296. Þet muchel kumeð of lutel.

320 c. 1300.  Cursor M., 27682 (Cott. Galba MS.). Of enuy cummes oft grete grocheing.

321 c. 1386.  Chaucer, Nun’s Pr. T., 107. Certes this dreme … Cometh of the grete superfluitee Of youre rede colera parde.

322 1485.  Act 1 Hen. VII., c. 8. The Money coming of or by the said Sale.

323 1568.  Turner, Herbal, III. 3. Rotten agues, of which the jaundes is commed.

324 1580.  Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 445. Their beautie commeth by nature, yours by art.

325 1611.  Bible, Transl. Pref., 1 b. He had not seene any profit to come by any Synode.

326 1663.  Butler, Hud., I. i. 758. Sure some Mischief will come of it.

327 1773.  S. Hopkins, Sin, etc. ii. 39. As sin, in its own nature and tendency, is as odious, vile and mischievous, as if no good came of it; so the disposition, aim and end of the sinner, is as hateful and vile, as contrary to God and all good, as if no good came of the sin he commits.

328 1833.  New Monthly Mag., XXXVII. 350. Education comes of more things than books.

329 1836.  A. Fonblanque, Eng. under 7 Administr. (1837), III. 286. This comes of having the son of a cotton-spinner for a chief.

330 1884.  W. C. Smith, Kildrostan, 48. Suspicion murders love, and from its death Come anguish and remorse.

331 Mod.  No good could come of it.

332     *** To come into (in) a condition or relation.

333   12.  To enter or be brought into collision, contact, possession, use, fashion, action, play, force, prominence, opposition, contrast, comparison, etc. (the phrases being sometimes literal, sometimes entirely fig.) See these words.

334 1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VI. xiv. 63. O my childring cum nocht in vse to hant Sic fremmyt battellis.

335 1668.  Wilkins, Real Char., IV. iv. 434. It may come into comparison with any of the Languages now known.

336 1825.  New Monthly Mag., XIII. 55. A gay and piquant style … came into fashion.

337 1850.  Tait’s Mag., XVII. 438/2. That such a law should have come into existence. Ibid., 492/1. Scott and Chalmers … do not appear to have come into contact. Ibid., 544/2. The carbines will come into play.

338 1865.  W. A. Wright, in Smith’s Dict. Bible (1875), 611/2. The division … into chapters came into use at a later time. Ibid., 614/2. The … Polyglott … came into circulation.

339 1878.  Scribn. Mag., XVI. 480/1. The … property … came into the possession of Mr. Bryant.

340 1885.  Law Rep., Wkly. Notes, 146/1. She … came into collision with a steamer.

341   b.  To come into blossom, ear, flower, etc.: cf. 23.

342 1841.  Journ. Roy. Agric. Soc., II. I. 141. Both crops came into ear at the same time.

343     **** Absolute uses, with notions of coming into existence, growth, change of state.

344   13.  To come into existence, make its appearance; to come above ground or out of the germ, as a plant; to appear on the surface of the body, as hair, a rash, pimple, etc.

345 c. 1400.  Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 4 (MS. B). Off Aposteme þat comyth on þe sydes.

346 Mod.  He sowed turnips, but none of them came.

347   14.  Of grain in Malting: To germinate, put forth the radicle. [Here there is some connection with COME sb.2, and Ger. keimen: perh. a distinct verb cōme has fallen together with this.]

348 c. 1400[?].  Chalmerlan Ayr, xxvi. Sc. Stat. I. 693. Item þat þai lat jt akyrspire … quhare it aw bot to chip and cum at þe tane end.

349 1483.  [see COMING vbl. sb.2 1].

350 1577.  Harrison, England, II. vi. (1877), I. 156. To shoote at the root end, which maltsters call Comming. When it beginneth tharefore to shoot in this maner, theie saie it is come.

351 1584.  T. Hudson, Judith (1611), 13 (Jam.). Oft turning corne … least it do sproute or feede, Or come againe.

352 1616.  Surfl. & Markh., Country Farm, 105. Raw Malt when it is almost readie to goe to the Kilne, and as the Husbandman saith, is only well comed.

353 1669.  Worlidge, Syst. Agric. (1681), 54. Let Pease be taken and steeped in as much Water as will cover them, till they Swell and Come, and be so ordered as Barley is for Maulting.

354 1725.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Malt, To make the Barley Come even in the Couch.

355   15.  Butter is said to come, when it forms in the churn; so cheese-curd, jellies, etc., when they form.

356 [1577.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., III. (1586), 147. About a two or three houres after you have put in your Rennet, the Milke commeth to a Curd.]

357 1641.  J. Jackson, True Evang. T., I. 7. Not to churne the sincere milk thereof till butter come, nor to wring the nose of it till bloud come.

358 1796.  Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, xxii. 354. Put in two spoonfuls of rennet, and when it is come, break it a little.

359 1858.  Mrs. Stowe, Minister’s Wooing, I. 2. She can always step over to distressed Mrs. Smith, whose jelly won’t come.

360 1884.  Harper’s Mag., March, 520/2. On churning days the butter refused to come.

361 1884.  Holland, Chesh. Gloss., s.v., The curd is said to come when it coagulates; and butter is said to come when it separates from the milk in churning.

362   † 16.  Of persons: To yield, be favorably moved. (Cf. come about, come round, come to, and COMING ppl. a. 2.) Obs.

363 1603.  Shaks., Meas. for M., II. ii. 125. Oh, to him, to him wench: he will relent, Hee’s comming: I perceiue ’t.

364 1605.  B. Jonson, Volpone, II. iii. Corv. [aside] In the point of honour, The cases are all one, of wife and daughter. Mos. [aside] I heare him comming.

365   III.  Of arrival in order, time, or course of events.

366     *  Of reaching a point or stage of proceedings. (Said of a voluntary agent.)

367   17.  To arrive at or reach in the course of orderly treatment. Const. to, at, or infin.

368 a. 1200.  Moral Ode, 157, in Trin. Coll. Hom., 224. Ich wulle nu cumen eft to þe dome ich eow ar of sade.

369 1544.  Latimer, Wks. (Parker Soc.), II. 438. Begin at his birth, and go forth until ye come at his burial.

370 1581.  J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 258. I come now to ye pynche of my true defence.

371 1669.  Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., I. 3. In this Treatise we will come to the Sea-Compass.

372 1687.  Burnet, Contn. Refl. Varillas, 121. Our Author is always unhappy, when he comes to particulars.

373 1722.  De Foe, Col. Jack (1840), 253. When I come to consider that part more narrowly.

374 1781.  Ann. Reg., Acc. of Bks., 200/2. We now come to the reign of Queen Mary.

375 1874.  Stubbs, Const. Hist. Eng., I. iv. 68. Until we come to ages in which we have clearer data.

376 1884.  Gladstone, in Standard, 29 Feb., 2/7. I now come to the third of these great problems.

377   18.  To advance, proceed, or attain to, as an end or natural result. Occas. with indirect pass.

378 1475.  Caxton, Jason, 20 b. I hope to come to thaboue of myn enterpryse.

379 1545.  Ascham, Toxoph., I. (Arb.), 97. They knewe not whyche way to houlde to comme to shootynge.

380 1707.  Freind, Peterborow’s Cond. Sp., 13. They are come to this unanimous Resolution.

381 1728.  De Foe, Carleton (1809), 3. To avoid coming to a battle for the present.

382 1749.  Fielding, Tom Jones, VII. xii. They soon came to a right understanding.

383 1827.  Scott, Tales Grandfather, Ser. I. viii. These two haughty barons came to high and abusive words.

384 1848.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 556. To fear that the two parties would come to blows.

385 1876.  Freeman, Norm. Conq., II. App. 678. A compromise was come to.

386 1897.  Emma Rayner, Free to Serve, xli. 428. Truly you did not cross the sea to come to fisticuffs with offscouring such as yon.

387             **  Of the arrival of time.

388   19.  Of time or portions of time: To be present, to arrive in due course.

389 c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 45. A þet cume domes-dei.

390 c. 1340.  Cursor M., 12830 (Trin.). He knew þe tyme come þat he wolde haue bapteme nome.

391 1382.  Wyclif, 1 Pet. v. 1. That glorye, that is to be schewid in tyme to comynge.

392 a. 1400.  Stac. Rome, 750, in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866), 140. Whan the soneday is I-come.

393 1480.  in Acta Dom. Concilii, 69 (Jam.). The lordis assignis to Patric Ramsay Monunday that next cummys.

394 1568.  Grafton, Chron., II. 218. When bed tyme came, the king went to his bed.

395 1597.  Daniel, Civ. Wares, VIII. lxiii. The morning being com’n (and glad he was That it was com’n).

396 1663.  F. Hawkins, Youths Behav., 85. When two Sundayes come together.

397 1726.  Swift, Gulliver (1869), 211/1. When … the day came for my departure, I took leave of my master.

398 1833.  New Monthly Mag., XXXVIII. 390. The time must come, and will come quickly.

399     ***  Of the arrival in time, or in the course of events, of things or involuntary agents.

400   20.  Of an event: To come about, happen, turn out; esp. quasi-impers. with subject clause; = next.

401 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 13131. Til it com on a fest dai, Þat king herod did for to call Þe barnage.

402 1535.  Coverdale, 1 Sam. i. 4. Whan it came vpon a daye that Elcana offred.

403 1548.  Hall, Chron., 186. How commeth this that there are so many Newe Testamentes abrode?

404 1603.  Philotus, xciv. All things ar cumde for the best.

405 1607.  Shaks., Cor., III. i. 275. How com’st that you haue holpe To make this rescue?

406 1837.  Carlyle, Diam. Necklace, iv. And then the exasperating Why? The How came it?

407   21.  To come to pass: to happen, take place in the course of events, come about, occur, be fulfilled.

408 1481.  Caxton, Reynard (Arb.), 108. The wulf … threw the foxe al plat under hym, which cam hym evyl to passe.

409 1526.  Tindale, Matt. xxiv. 6. All these thinges must come to passe, but the ende is not yet.

410 1563.  Homilies, II. Idolatry (1859), 202. You may see that cummen to pass which Bishop Serenus feared.

411 1662.  Stillingfl., Orig. Sacr., II. vi. § 13. Therefore the event may not come to pass, and yet the Prophet be a true Prophet.

412 1718.  Hickes, J. Kettlewell, I. v. 20. Which accordingly came to pass.

413 1848.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 335. The change which has come to pass in the cities.

414   b.  quasi-impers. with subject clause. arch.

415 1526.  Tindale, Luke v. 1. It came to passe … that he stoode by the lake of Genezareth.

416 1535.  Coverdale, Tobit iv. 7. So shal it come to passe, that the face of the Lorde shal not be turned awaye from the.

417 1597.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. lxix. § 3. How it cometh to pass that one day doth excel another.

418 1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 128, ¶ 10. By this means it comes to pass, that the Girls look upon their Father as a Clown.

419 1726.  Swift, Gulliver (1869), 155/2. To know … how it came to pass that people were so violently bent upon getting into this assembly.

420   22.  Of things which arrive or take place in time.

421   Here belong such phrases as, His turn came, It came his turn, or to his turn to do something: see TURN.

422 c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 59. Adueniat regnum tuum, Cume þi riche we seggeð hit.

423 1388.  Wyclif, Coloss. ii. 17. Schadewe of thingis to comynge.

424 1616.  Pasquil & Kath., I. 62. When the Lord my Fathers Audit comes.

425 1625.  Bacon, Ess., Gardens (Arb.), 556. For March, There come Violets.

426 1651.  Hobbes, Leviath., II. xxvi. 144. One Judge passeth, another commeth.

427 1732.  Arbuthnot, Rules of Diet, 415. For the longer the Eruption is a coming and the smaller when it comes the Disease is less dangerous.

428 1878.  Scribn. Mag., XV. 116/1. After the dinner came the reception. Ibid., 776/1. It came to Janet’s turn.

429   23.  To be brought in the course of events; to grow, arrive at, attain to (a specified state or stage). Sometimes impers. ‘it comes to.’ Hence many idiomatic phrases; e.g., To come to, in, on PLACE: to take place. See Come to, 45.

430 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 5070 (Gött.). I tald a drem Þat comen es nou to gode.

431 c. 1320.  Seuyn Sages (W.), 1195. Is hit comen therto, We sscholle be departed so.

432 c. 1450.  Guy Warw. (C.), 4427. Tyll hyt came to darke nyght Euyn they folowed me ryght.

433 1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531). Vnto the tyme they come to the yeres of discrecyon.

434 1609.  Skene, Reg. Maj., 94. Quhen it is cum to the giving of the sentence.

435 1611.  Bible, Job xiv. 21. His sonnes come to honour.

436 1687.  Burnet, Contn. Refl. Varillas, 143. She bore him several children, but one Daughter only came to Age.

437 1758.  Binnell, Descr. Thames, 254. He comes to his full Growth in a Year.

438 1793.  B. Edwards, Col. W. Ind. (1794), II. IV. 12. The trees that come soonest to perfection.

439 1833.  New Monthly Mag., XXXVII. 165. Is it come to this?

440 1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 231. If any of his deeds come to light.

441 1879.  M. J. Guest, Lect. Hist. Eng., l. 508. But though he [Evelyn] adopts so bold and enlightened a tone about eclipses, he becomes dubious and cautious when it comes to meteors and comets.

442 1889.  Cornh. Mag., Dec., 568. Why should Dick have come to harm?

443   b.  with dat. infin. To come to do, be, etc.

444 1563–87.  Foxe, A. & M., viii. 327. He came to understand that.

445 1590.  Sir J. Smyth, Disc. Weapons, Sign. * *. The same Saxons … themselves came after to be conquered by the Danes.

446 1629.  H. Burton, Babel no Bethel, 86. How comes then M. Cholmeley to be thus egregiously deceiued?

447 1653.  H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Voy., xxxv. § 3. When any exhalation comes to dissolve in the air.

448 1692.  Bentley, Boyle Lect., viii. 265. But how came the Sun to be Luminous?

449 1842.  Tait’s Mag., IX. 246/1. She … liked [him] more and more as she came to know him.

450 1885.  Act 48 & 49 Vict., c. 76, Pream. The River Thames … has come to be largely used as a place of public recreation and resort.

451 1889.  K. S. Macquoid, R. Ferron, I. 54. How came you to be up so early?

452   24.  With complement (pa. pple., adj., or † sb.).

453   a.  To become, get to be (in some condition).

454   Often expressing passage from one condition into another, as in ‘to come untied.’

455 c. 1340.  Cursor M., 11615 (Fairf.). Þen come þe propheci alle clere Þat spokin was of þat childe dere.

456 a. 1592.  Greene & Lodge, Looking Gl., Wks. (1861), 127. Tell me how this man came dead.

457 1593.  Abp. Bancroft, Dang. Positions, IV. vii. 156. How Coppinger and Arthington came acquainted with Hacket.

458 1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., II. iii. 57. So came I a Widow. Ibid. (1606), Tr. & Cr., I. ii. 132. How came it clouen?

459 1667.  Milton, P. L., IX. 563. Say, How cam’st thou speakable of mute.

460 1771.  Smollett, Humph. Cl., II. 238. She had had the good fortune to come acquainted with a pious Christian.

461 1837.  Dickens, Pickw., xxii. The brown-paper parcel had ‘come untied.’

462 1889.  A. Lang, Pr. Prigio, xvii. 136. Lo and behold! each knight came alive, with his horse.

463 1889.  Mrs. Riddell, P’cess Sunshine, I. iv. 71. All would come right between her and her old friends.

464   b.  To prove in the issue, event, or experience; to turn out to be.

465 1862.  Trench, Mirac., Introd. 5. When that ‘sign’ comes true.

466 1878.  Scribn. Mag., XVI. 476/2. It will come very cheap to you.

467 1889.  Mrs. H. L. Cameron, Lost Wife, I. i. 9. Poverty comes hard upon the old.

468 1889.  Mrs. Oliphant, Poor Gentleman, III. iv. 62. It may come easier afterwards.

469 1889.  Mrs. M. Caird, Wing of Azrael, III. xxxviii. 194. In point of fact, my dear … you come rather expensive.

470   c.  For individual idioms, e.g., to come true, to come natural, etc., see TRUE, etc.

471   IV.  To become, belong.

472   † 25.  To become, be becoming or appropriate (to), belong or pertain to, befit. (L. convenire.) Obs.

473 1297.  R. Glouc. (1724), 420. ‘Ne wep noȝt’ he sede … vor yt ne comþ noȝt to þe [v.r. Hit by cometh nat the].

474 a. 1400.  Life Cuthbert (MS. Trin. Coll. Oxf. 57). No suche idell games it ne cometh [1290 Laud MS. bi-cometh] the to worche.

475 a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 627. It come noȝt a kyng son … to sytt Doune in margon & molle emange othire schrewis. Ibid., 3974. It comes to na kyng … To latt his pepill þus pas & perisch in ydill.

476 c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 2181. Hit shuld come you by course, as of kynd childer, To be sory for my sake.

477 a. 1529.  Skelton, Agst. Garnesche, Wks. II. 129. It cumys the better for to dryue A dong cart or a tumrelle. Ibid., 101. Yt commyth the wele me to remorde.

478 a. 1670.  Hacket, Abp. Williams, I. (1692), 118. That which comes to the institute I handle was thus endicted.

479   V.  Come and go.

480   26.  Come is often used in association with go, to contrast or include the two motions or results.

481   a.  To come to a place and depart again, whether for once, or with repetition; to pass to and fro.

482 1382.  Wyclif, Mark vi. 31. There weren manye that camen, and wenten aȝen [1611 There were many comming and going].

483 1434.  Jas. I., Lett., in Harding’s Chron. (1812), p. vii. Lettres of … sauf condute saufely to comme and go to our presence.

484 1568.  Grafton, Chron., II. 128. It was agreed that … The Citizens of London should come and go toll free.

485 1598.  Shaks., Merry W., II. ii. 130. Hee may come and goe betweene you both.

486 1655.  Fuller, Ch. Hist., II. vi. § 29. What solemn Festivalls people may come and goe of.

487 1864.  Tennyson, Grandmother, xx. She comes and goes at her will.

488   b.  To be first present and then absent; to approach and recede; to appear and disappear alternately; also of time, to arrive and pass.

489 c. 1340.  Cursor M., 1851 (Fairf.). Til vij skores dayes ware comme and gan.

490 c. 1400.  Sowdone Bab., 1631. vj dayes be comyn and goon.

491 1589.  Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, I. xxiv. (Arb.), 62. For worldly goods they come and go, as things not long proprietary to any body.

492 1595.  Shaks., John, IV. ii. 76. The colour of the King doth come, and go Betweene his purpose and his conscience.

493 a. 1600.  ‘Hempe’ prophecy, in Whole Prophecies Scotl. (1615). When Hempe is come and also gone, Scotland and England shall be all one.

494 1627.  Drayton, Moon-calf, Wks. 1753, II. 492. After many years were com’n and gone.

495 1719.  De Foe, Crusoe (1840), II. vi. 141. His colour came and went.

496 1833.  Tennyson, Fatima, iii. My swift blood that went and came.

497 1849.  Tait’s Mag., XVI. 299/1. Night’s shadows come and go.

498   c.  fig. To exercise liberty of action.

499 1864.  Burton, Scot Abr., I. ii. 99. There being thus, in titles … considerable room to come and go upon.

500   d.  In various proverbs and phrases.

501 15[?].  Debate Carpenter’s Tools, in Halliw., Nugæ P., 13. That lyghtly cum schall lyghtly go.

502 1660.  Charac. Italy, 13. The old Proverb, Male parta, male dilabuntur, Badly come, badly go.

503 1833.  New Monthly Mag., XXXVIII. 192. ‘Lightly come, lightly go,’ is his maxim.

504 1865.  B. Brierley, Irkdale, I. 25. A jolly, come-day, go-day fellow … he never saved a farthing in his life.

505 1876.  Whitby Gloss., Come day, Gan day, God send Sunday, the saying … of indolent workers, who care not how the days come and go, provided they have little to do.

506   VI.  Quasi-trans. uses. [The object is usually an adverbial accusative.]

507   27.  To come it (slang): to ‘come out with it,’ in various senses: see quots.

508 c. 1690.  B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Has he come it? has he lent it you?

509 1812.  J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., Come it, to divulge a secret … they say of a thief who has turned evidence against his accomplices, that he is coming all he knows, or that he comes it as strong as a horse.

510 1873.  Slang Dict., s.v., Also, in pugilistic phraseology, to COME IT means to show fear; and in this respect, as well as in that of giving information, the expression ‘COME IT’ is best known to the lower and most dangerous classes.

511   28.  To act, to practise, to perform one’s part; as in To come it strong, etc. slang and colloq.

512 1812.  [see prec.].

513 1825.  New Monthly Mag., XIII. 546. Can’t you come it melancholy?

514 1825.  C. M. Westmacott, Eng. Spy, I. 86. Or in a stanhope come it strong.

515 1838.  Dickens, Nich. Nick., xxiii. I can come it pretty well—nobody better, perhaps, in my own line.

516 1854.  De Quincey, Casuistry Rom. Meals, Wks. III. 250. But it was coming it too strong to allow no tobacco.

517 1888.  McCarthy & Mrs. Praed, Ladies’ Gallery, I. ii. 48. That is coming it a little too strong.

518   b.  To play or practise (a dodge or trick), esp. over any one; to ‘come over’ him (see 43 f) with that dodge. slang and colloq.

519 1785.  Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, To come Yorkshire over any one, to cheat him.

520 1855.  Thackeray, Newcomes, II. 253. Barnes is trying to come the religious dodge.

521 1865.  J. Hatton, Bitter Sweets, xxii. Don’t come that dodge over me.

522 1873.  Slang Dict., s.v., Don’t come tricks here.

523   c.  To play, act the part of. Const. over a person, i.e., at his expense, or so as to get the better of him. So to come it with any one. slang or colloq.

524   [In French they say at Tennis ‘laissez-moi venir ce couplà,’ let me come that stroke, i.e., play it; so at cards ‘laissez-moi venir cette main,’ let me come that hand.]

525 1837.  Dickens, Pickw., xliv. That man, sir … has comic powers that would do honour to Drury Lane Theatre…. Hear him come the four cats in the wheelbarrow.

526 1841.  J. T. Hewlett, Parish Clerk, II. 173. Suspecting that he was playing a game of his own, and ‘coming the deep file over him.’

527 1850.  Tait’s Mag., XVII. 691/1. You’ll have the stove at your head, you lanky beast, if you try to come the bully over me—you thief, you will.

528 1850.  Kingsley, Alt. Locke, xiii. He intends to come the Mirabeau—fancies his mantle has fallen on him.

529 1861.  Dickens, Gt. Expect., vii. Your sister comes the Mogul over us, now and again.

530 1890.  Philips & Wills, Sybil Ross’s Marriage, xviii. 126. It’s no use a-trying to come it with me, mister; you’ve got swell writ big all over ye, and no mistake.

531   29.  To attain to, reach, achieve. dial. and colloq.

532 1888.  Berksh. Gloss., s.v., ‘I can’t quite come that’ (= that is beyond me).

533 1888.  in W. Somerset Word-bk.

534   b.  To come a cropper, a colcher (colloq.): see CROPPER, COLSH.

535   30.  To come or be coming six, etc.: to be in one’s sixth year of age. Said esp. of horses, or the like, for which rising is now the usual phrase.

536 1675.  Lond. Gaz., No. 1008/4. Brownish bay Gelding about 14 hands high, coming seven years old. Ibid. (1682), No. 1766/4. She is in Fole, and cometh six.

537 1778.  Learning at a Loss, I. 58. A young Fellow as I am, just coming four and twenty.

538 1858–65.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., I. VI. iii. 161. Wilhelmina, now a slim maiden coming nineteen. Ibid., III. IX. vii. 130. Princess Elizabeth … age eighteen coming.

539   31.  To come any one thanks: to tender thanks. (Here come may be a perversion of CON.) Now dial.

540 c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr., V. xv. 563. And thei wolen not come her thankis.

541 1883.  Huddersfield Gloss., s.v. Cum thank, ‘I cum ye no thank, I acknowledge no thanks to you. [So elsewhere in mod. dialects.]

542   VII.  Special uses of certain parts of the verb.

543   32.  To come, the dative infinitive [OE. to cumenne], is used (like F. à venir):

544   a.  predicatively, after vb. to be. [This construction does not differ from that found with other verbs, as in ‘he is to go,’ ‘we are to speak,’ etc.]

545 c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Matt. xi. 3. Eart þu þe to cumenne eart?

546 c. 1205.  Lay., 16037. Or þire mucle kare þa þe is to cumene [c. 1275 þat þe is comene].

547 1388.  Wyclif, 1 Tim. iv. 8. That hath a biheest of lijf that now is, and that is to come [1382 and to comynge].

548 1611.  Bible, ibid. Promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

549 1678.  Bunyan (title), The Pilgrim’s Progress from this world to that which is to come.

550 1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., IV. 566. He sees what is, and was, and is to come.

551 1710.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4637/4. ’Tis Leasehold, and twenty two years to come.

552 1889.  Philips & Wills, Fatal Phryne, I. iii. 61. All their troubles were to come.

553   b.  attributively (after sb.) = That is to come, coming, future.

554 1382.  Wyclif, Matt. iii. 7. Who shewide to ȝou for to flee fro wrath to cumme [v.r. comynge; 1388 that is to come].

555 c. 1400.  Apol. Loll., 5. In þis tyme, and in tyme to come.

556 1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531), 4. Shadowes of thynges to come.

557 1526.  Tindale, Hebr. vi. 5. The power of the worlde to come [Wyclif, the world to comynge].

558 1611.  Bible, Ex. xiii. 14. When thy sonne asketh thee in time to come.

559 1763.  Crabbe, Village, II. 194. Oh! make the Age to come thy better care.

560 1827.  Pollok, Course T., V. Unwelcome earnest of the woe to come.

561 1874.  Mrs. Hollings First Impres. ii. 15. Bright dreams of happiness yet to come.

562   c.  absol. The future. [In Shaks. not clearly sb.]

563 1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., I. iii. 108. Past, and to Come, seemes best; things Present, worst.

564 1623.  Lisle, Ælfric on O. & N. T., Ded. How of all things the Summe Shewes joy in thee, for present and to come.

565 1821.  Shelley, Hellas.                        But from his eye looks forth A life of unconsumed thought which pierces The present, and the past, and the to-come.

566 1839–48.  Bailey, Festus, v. 43. It is fear which beds the far to-come with fire.

567 1840.  Mrs. Browning, Drama of Exile, Poems 1850, I. 59. Scorning the Past and damning the To come.

568   β.  To coming, in late ME., was app. a confusion of cumenne, comen, with the vbl. sb. coming.

569 1382.  Wyclif, 1 Tim. vi. 19. A good foundement into tyme to comynge.

570 c. 1400.  Beryn, 347. This nyȝte þat is to comyng.

571 c. 1430.  Hymns Virg. (1867), 81. And so is it þat is to comyng ȝit.

572 1483.  Caxton, Gold. Leg., 239/1. The first fruyte of the to comyng haruest. Ibid. (1490), Eneydos (E.E.T.S.), 4. My tocomynge naturell and souerayn Lord.

573   33.  Come, the imperative, (beside its ordinary use as an invitation to approach or join the speaker) is used as an invitation or encouragement to action, usually along with or on the side of the speaker.

574 c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Luke xx. 14. Her ys se yrfeweard … cumaþ uton hine ofslean.

575 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 2030 (Cott.). Cum, broiþer, here and se.

576 1382.  Wyclif, Mark xii. 7. This is the eier; come ȝe, sle we him.

577 c. 1460.  Towneley Myst., 44. Com kys us bothe.

578 1526.  Tindale, Mark xii. 7. Come let vs kyll hym.

579 1590.  Shaks., Com. Err., V. i. 114. Come go, I will fall prostrate at his feete.

580 1616.  Pasquil & Kath., V. 69. Come, Brabant, giue me my Cloke.

581 1669.  Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., I. 16. Come my hearts, have up your Anchor that we may have a good Prize. Come, Who say Amen.

582 1803.  Scott, ‘Bonnie Dundee.’ Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle my horses and call out my men.

583   b.  As a call or appeal to a person to bethink himself, implying impatience, remonstrance, or, more usually, mild protest or deprecation on the speaker’s part. Often emphasized by repetition, or by the addition of such words as now, then, but.

584 c. 1340.  Cursor M., App. ii. 823. Come þou art mys-bileuyd.

585 1590.  Shaks., Com. Err., I. ii. 68. Come Dromio, come, these iests are out of season. Ibid. (1603), Meas. for M., II. i. 119. Come: you are a tedious foole.

586 1671.  Milton, Samson, 1708. Come, come, no time for lamentation now.

587 1688.  S. Penton, Guardian’s Instr., 41. Come, come, act like a man.

588 1722.  De Foe, Col. Jack (1840), 160. Come, come, colonel, says he, don’t flatter me.

589 1825.  New Monthly Mag., XIII. 422. Oh! oh! come now, softly. It is not fair.

590 1838.  Dickens, O. Twist, xvi. Come, come, Sikes … we must have civil words.

591 1887.  Margaret A. Curtois, Tracked, II. xxv. 273. ‘Oh, come, now,’ he faltered, ‘that’s rather strong, you know; you have confessed, after all, and they won’t hang a boy like you.’

592   34.  Come, the present conj., is used in such phrases as ‘come what may, or will’ [cf F. vienne que vienne, It. venga che venga, Ger. es komme was da will!], ‘come weal, come woe.’ Also in ‘come what might, or would,’ where the sense is past.

593 1583.  Stubbes, Anat. Abus., II. 77. They will to all kinde of wanton pastimes … with come that come will.

594 [a. 1677.  Barrow, Serm. (1686), III. 328. Say what you can, let what will come on it.]

595 1790.  Burns, My Nanie, viii. Come weel, come woe, I care na by.

596 1843.  Browning, Blot in ’Scutcheon, I. iii. IV. 21. Come what come will, You have been happy.

597 1881.  Saintsbury, Dryden, 187. Follow out that scheme, come wind, come weather.

598 1888.  Mrs. Riddell, Nun’s Curse, II. v. 100. Come weal, come woe, I shall not trouble you.

599   35.  Come, the present conj., is used with a future date following as subject, as in Fr. dix-huit ans vienne la Saint-Martin,—viennent les Pâques, ‘eighteen years old come Martinmas,—come Easter’; i.e., let Easter come, when Easter shall come. arch. and dial.

600 a. 1420.  Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ. (Roxb.), 29. Twenty yere come Estren.

601 1592.  Shaks., Rom. & Jul., I. iii. 17. Come Lammas Eue at night shall she be fourteene.

602 1799.  Southey, Eng. Eclog., VII. Come Candlemas, and I have been their servant For five-and-forty years.

603 1839.  Longf., Hyperion, ii. (1882), 16. It all happened … four years ago, come Christmas.

604 1883.  Lloyd, Ebb & Flow, II. 21. For twenty years come Michaelmas.

605 1888.  Mrs. Riddell, Nun’s Curse, II. vii. 135. You’ll grant me a seven years’ lease come next May twelvemonth.

606   b.  Also with an interval of time (week, month, year, etc.) following and qualifying a date, as in ‘Thursday come fortnight,’ where the literary language now has ‘Thursday fortnight,’ but the full phrase is retained dialectally.

607 1417.  in E. E. Wills (1882), 39. He schele Haue … xv. li. at Esteren next, and x li at Esteren come twelmonthe.

608 1478.  in Acta Dom. Concilii, 20 (Jam.). On Monunday come aucht dais.

609 1568.  Grafton, Chron., II. 308. The thirde Million, to be payde … at Mighelmas come a yere after the agreement.

610 1631.  Rutherford, Lett., No. 18 (1862), I. 76. Our Communion is on Sabbath come eight days.

611 1640.  Ho. Com. Order, in Rushw. III. (1692), I. 141. Ordered, That the business … be put off till Thursday come fortnight.

612 1692.  Ord. City Lond., 19 June, in Entick, London (1766), IV. 231. On Thursday next come seven-night.

613 1724.  Berkeley, Lett., 8 Dec., Wks. 1871, IV. 110. Provided you bring my affair … to a complete issue before Christmas day come twelvemonth.

614 Mod. colloq.  The lease will expire at Midsummer come a year.

615 Mod. Sc.  We expect him on Monday come eight days.

616   36.  Coming, pres. pple., used of age: see 30.

617   b.  A response by a servant or any one who is called: = ‘I am coming,’ ‘directly!’

618 [a. 1300.  Floriz & Bl., 573. Clarice … haþ icluped blauncheflur … Quaþ blauncheflur ‘ihc am cominge,’ Ac heo hit sede al slepinge.]

619 1701.  Farquhar, Sir H. Wildair, II. i. Commend me to a boy and a bell; Coming, coming, sir! Much noise, no attendance, and a dirty room.

620 1709.  Addison, Tatler, No. 131, ¶ 9. Coming, Coming, Sir, (said he) with the Air of a Drawer.

621 1749.  Fielding, Tom Jones, VIII. ii. I think I hear somebody call. Coming, coming!

622   VIII.  With prepositions (and prepositional phrases), in specialized senses.

623   (For ordinary prepositional constructions see 3.)

624   37.  Come across ——. To cross the path of; to meet, meet with; to fall in with by chance.

625 1810.  Pike, Sources Mississ., I. 20. Saw great sign of elk, but had not the good fortune to come across any of them.

626 1849.  Tait’s Mag., XVI. 226/1. The recollection … came across my mind.

627 1886.  F. Harrison, Choice Bks., 85. I came across a very curious book.

628   38.  Come at —— (= L. accēdere). † a. To approach; to come to, come so as to be present at. Obs.

629 1000–1537.  [see AT 12 a].

630 1483.  Caxton, G. de la Tour, D viij b. Many ladyes and damoysels were come at the weddyng of a maide.

631 1625.  K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, II. viii. (1636), 151. Oleodemus … would not come at the Court.

632 1658–9.  Burton’s Diary (1828), IV. 42. I will never come at that Committee again.

633 1737.  Whiston, Josephus’ Hist., IV. viii. § 3. This country is then so sadly burnt up that nobody cares to come at it.

634   † b.  To come into bodily contact or sexual connexion with. Obs.

635 1535.  Coverdale, Ex. xix. 15. Be ready agaynst the thirde daye, and no man come at his wife. Ibid., Ezek. xliv. 25. They shal come at no deed persone, to defyle them selues.

636 1577.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., I. (1586), 156 b. After the Catte hath kitned, she commeth no more at the Bucke.

637 a. 1641.  Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 433. Both [men and women] may well heare the reader … but not come at each other.

638   c.  To get at, reach (with implied effort), get hold of, obtain. (With indirect passive.)

639 1340.  [see AT 12 c].

640 1532.  More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 695/2. We can neuer come at it withoute the helpe of God.

641 1669.  Worlidge, Syst. Agric., vii. § 7 (1681), 128. If they [mice] can come at them, you will have but few left.

642 1746.  Lucas, in Phil. Trans., XLIV. 464. They are cheap, easily come at, and prepared by one’s self.

643 1781.  Ann. Reg., Chron., 179/1. The defendant, being … abroad, could not be come at.

644 1832.  Blackw. Mag., Jan., 133/1. Lord Brougham’s opinion of democracy is hard to come at.

645 1889.  Stevenson, Master of B., iii. 64. How to come at the path.

646   d.  To dart at, make for, attack.

647 1651–7.  T. Barker, Angling (1820), 20. The Salmon will come at a Gudgeon.

648 1889.  A. Lang, Pr. Prigio, ix. 65. He rose on a pair of flaming wings, and came right at the prince.

649   39.  Come by ——. See BY prep. 15.

650   † a.  To happen to, befall (a person). Obs.

651 1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. 717. Bycause they rode forthe lyke foles, so it came by them.

652   b.  To come near, or within reach of, to get at; hence, to get hold of, become possessed of, obtain, receive. Originally implying effort, but in later use often said of getting things by chance or involuntarily, to meet with. (With indirect passive.)

653 c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 296. Alle þat he mot com bie he robbed.

654 c. 1350.  Will. Palerne, 1688. Miȝt we by coyntise com bi tvo skynnes of the breme beres.

655 c. 1430.  Syr Gener. (Roxb.), 8591. The ring … I may not come therbi.

656 1526.  Tindale, Acts xxvii. 16. We … had moche worke to come by a bote.

657 1531.  Elyot, Gov., I. x. Greke … is hardest to come by.

658 1568.  Grafton, Chron., II. 218. It could not be perceyved howe he [Edw. II.] came by his death.

659 1601.  Shaks., Twel. N., I. v. 131. Cosin, Cosin, how haue you come so earely by this Lethargie?

660 1622.  Callis, Stat. Sewers (1647), 96. That the party so distrained hath a direct remedy to come by his losses.

661 1739.  R. Bull, trans. Dedekindus’ Grobianus, 146. The hindmost man comes ever by the worst.

662 1866.  Kingsley, Herew., xv. The rogues have fallen out, and honest men may come by their own.

663 1883.  Buchanan, Love me for Ever, II. v. 130. This gold is honestly come by.

664   Come from ——: see 11.

665   40.  Come into ——. a. See 12.

666   † b.  To accede to, agree to; to fall in with (a proposal); to yield to. Obs.

667 1722.  De Foe, Plague (1754), 27. The poor People came into it so eagerly. Ibid. (1725), Voy. round World (1840), 19. The rest, who had all opposed me before, came cheerfully into my proposal.

668 1739.  Gray, in Gosse, Life (1882), 30. The women did not come into it.

669 1753.  Miss Collier, Art Torment., III. 219. But be sure to lose this whole day, by coming into no proposal for pleasure.

670 1828.  Sir W. Scott, Tales of a Grandfather, Ser. I. xxiii. (1841), 78/1. That he ought not to … come into the King’s will.

671   c.  To come into possession of.

672 [1772.  Town & Country Mag., 23. On his coming into the possession of an estate.]

673 1833.  New Monthly Mag., XXXVIII. 68. I came into a property of one hundred thousand pounds.

674 1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 381. A bald little tinker who has just … come into a fortune.

675 1888.  Mrs. Riddell, Nun’s Curse, II. iii. 51. Now ‘he had come into his own.’

676   d.  To enter upon (office or power).

677 1728.  Swift, Intelligencer, No 5, ¶ 2. With a perpetual wrong Judgment, when the Owners come into Power and high Place, how to dispose of Favour and Preferment.

678 1804.  J. Taylor, Def. Admin. T. Jefferson, 8. Considering the peculiar circumstances, under which the present Chief Magistrate came into office, the people had a right to expect from him a full and habitual disclosure of his measures.

679 1820.  Examiner, No. 617. 83/2. The year in which the Coalition came into power.

680 1844.  Fraser’s Mag., XXX. 745/1. The Whigs came into office.

681   41.  Come of ——. a. See 11. b. = Become of.

682 1590.  Marlowe, Tamburl., II. iii. What thinks’t thou, man, shall come of our attempts?

683 1849.  Thackeray, Van. Fair (1856), 320. What has come of Major Dobbin?

684   42.  Come on ——. = Come upon, 48.

685 1549.  Compl. Scotl., 6. The iminent dangeir that vas cummand on the realme of France.

686 1568.  Grafton, Chron., II. 295. Then the kinges battaile came on the Englishe men.

687 1585.  James I., Ess. in Poesie (Arb.), 23. As the Pilgrim … Cumd on the parting of two wayes at night.

688 1777.  Sheridan, Sch. Scand., II. ii. A right to come on any of the endorsers.

689 1840.  Dickens, Barn. Rudge, lxxviii. The popular expression of ‘coming on the parish.’

690 1850.  Tait’s Mag., XVII. 478/1. The change had come on them like a shot.

691 1864.  Tennyson, E. Arden, 149. Moving homeward [Enoch] came on Annie.

692   b.  Obs. and dial. for come of.

693 a. 1677.  [see 34].

694 1687.  Burnet, Cont. Refl. Varillas, 27. I saw what would come on it, if he would not be at that charge.

695   43.  Come over ——. a. See 3.

696   † b.  To exceed, surpass. Obs.

697 1478.  Paston Lett., No. 816, III. 225. That comth over the reseytys in my exspenses I have borowd.

698 1599.  Shaks., Much Ado, V. ii. 7. M. Will you then write me a Sonnet in praise of my beautie? B. In so high a stile Margaret, that no man liuing shall come ouer it.

699   c.  To come as an overshadowing or overmastering influence; to take possession of (figuratively). (Connected with the next by the phrase ‘a change has come over him.’) Come over with (Shaks.): cf. 7.

700 1599.  Shaks., Hen. V., I. ii. 267. How he comes o’re vs with our wilder dayes. Ibid. (1604), Oth., IV. i. 20. It comes ore my memorie, As doth the Rauen o’re the infectious house: Boading to all.

701 1714.  Jrnl. W. Edmundson, Pref. 5. A general Apostacy came over Professed Christians.

702 1841.  Lever, C. O’Malley, iii. Certain misgivings came over me.

703 1888.  McCarthy & Mrs. C. Praed, Ladies’ Gallery, II. xi. 180. Sometimes … it comes over me that this is all a piece of acting.

704 1889.  Chamb. Jrnl., 2 Nov., 699/1. That … look once more came over his face.

705   d.  To overtake, befall, happen to.

706 1848.  Mrs. Gaskell, M. Barton, i. ‘I’m sorry for the girl, for bad ’s come over her.’ Ibid., vi. ‘There’s a change comed over him … is there not?’

707 1857.  Buckle, Civiliz., I. xiii. 734. [This] showed the change that had come over him.

708 1888.  Farjeon, Miser Farebrother, II. vii. 96. What had come over Bob?

709   † e.  To overcome, dominate over. Obs.

710 1668.  Pepys, Diary, 20 Jan. Against the French power coming over them or us.

711   f.  To get the better of by craft, impose upon. colloq. or slang. (With indirect pass.) Cf. 28 b.

712 1822.  Scott, Pirate, iv. Old Jasper Yellowley had been come over by a certain noble Scottish Earl.

713 1840.  Dickens, Barn. Rudge, xx. Not feeling quite certain … whether he might not be ‘coming over her’ with these compliments.

714 1883.  Mrs. F. Mann, Parish of Hilby, vii. 90. To cross that lady’s assumed intention of ‘coming over her.’

715   g.  To get over. dial.

716 1888.  Mrs. Jocelyn, £100,000 versus Ghosts, II. iv. 68. It all seems so sudden like, Miss Kate, I can’t come over that.

717   44.  Come round ——. To get round, get the better of by craft, circumvent. colloq.

718 1830.  trans. Aristoph., 247. How he comes round you with his sophistry!

719 Mod.  ‘You can’t come round me in that way.’

720   45.  Come to ——.

721   a.  See 3, and other senses passim.

722   † b.  To get at, attain, get possession of. Obs.

723 c. 1314.  Guy Warw. (A.), 308. Y loue þing y no may com to.

724 c. 1340.  Cursor M., 18409 (Trin.). How coom þou to þat gode.

725 1545.  Ascham, Toxoph. (Arb.), 124. To come to theyr lyuyng.

726 1586.  A. Day, Eng. Secretary, II. (1625), 99. It is requisite you prove, either that you had them by chance … or otherwise, that by some gift you came to them.

727   c.  To succeed in due course to. (Cf. 8 b, 40 c.)

728 1580.  Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 452. This clemencie did hir maiestie … shew at hir comming to the crowne.

729 1605.  B. Jonson, Volpone, III. v. To use his fortune With reverence when he comes to it.

730 1674.  trans. Machiavel’s Florentine Hist., I. 34. Urban the Second was now come to the Papacy.

731 1711.  Steele, Spect., No. 113, ¶ 3. I came to my Estate in my Twenty second Year.

732 1773.  Goldsm., Stoops to Conq., I. What a pity the ’squire is not come to his own.

733 1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 13. When he came to the crown.

734   d.  To amount to (a stated sum or number).

735 c. 1380.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 63. It wole come to sixti þousand mark þat he robbiþ of þe kingis lige men.

736 c. 1400.  Maundev. (Roxb.), xxii. 104. Þe somme … commez to fyue hundreth thowsand florenez.

737 1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 16. The dayes of the pilgrymage of my lyfe … come not to ye dayes of my forefathers.

738 1724.  De Foe, Mem. Cavalier (1840), 72. Let us put it all together, and see what it will come to.

739 1885.  Sir R. Baggallay, in Law Times’ Rep., LII. 671/1. The proceeds of the sale came to over 5000l.

740   e.  To amount to in price, to cost.

741 1596.  Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., II. iv. 84. In Barbary sir, it cannot come to so much.

742 1672.  Petty, Pol. Anat. (1691), 52. The Gallon of Milk comes but to a Farthing.

743 Mod.  This pair will come to about a guinea.

744   f.  fig. To ‘amount to,’ be equivalent to, mean.

745 1768.  Sterne, Sent. Journ., Montriul. It comes to the same thing, said I.

746 1825.  New Monthly Mag., XIV. 327. You don’t eat any thing. What, is your leg so bad as that comes to?

747 1825.  Waterton, Wand. S. Amer., i. 12. It comes nearly to the same thing in the end.

748 1879.  M. J. Guest, Lect. Hist. Eng., xix. 178 The first [dispute] really came to the question whether the bishops and archbishops were subjects of the king or of the Pope.

749 1888.  McCarthy & Mrs. C. Praed, Ladies’ Gallery, II. iv. 49. I am not exactly such a pig as that comes to.

750   g.  To issue or result in, to turn in the end to; in such phrases as to come to much, to little, to nought, when all comes to all, if the worst come to the worst, etc.

751 1568.  Grafton, Chron., II. 233. This voyage … came to nothing.

752 1611.  Bible, Hag. i. 9. Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little.

753 1699.  Dampier, Voy., II. I. i. 14. Nor was it his fault that it came to nothing.

754 1719.  De Foe, Crusoe, vii. (1720), 123. Not one Grain of that I sow’d this time came to anything.

755 1814.  Jane Austen, Mansf. Park (1847), 172. His falling in love with Julia had come to nothing.

756 1888.  F. Warden, Witch of Hills, II. xvi. 60. If the worst comes to the worst.

757   h.  Come to oneself (one’s senses): (a) To recover consciousness; to become conscious again after sleep, a swoon, etc.

758 1340.  Ayenb., 128. Ac þanne he heþ y-slepe and comþ to him-zelue.

759 c. 1489.  Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, iv. 122. She felle doun in a swoune … And whan she was come agen to herselfe.

760 1586.  T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., I. (1589), 491. She fell downe amazed: and being come to hir selfe againe, said unto them, etc.

761 1637.  Blunt, Voy. Levant, 16. The hurt person comming to his senses, cleared me, telling how it came and by whom.

762 1722.  De Foe, Col. Jack (1840), 285. When she was come to herself enough to talk again.

763 1890.  S. R. Gardiner, in Dict. Nat. Biog. XXII. 319/1. At the news of the execution of Charles I he [Montrose] fainted, and when he came to himself swore to avenge him.

764   (b)  To come to one’s right mind, recover from excitement, passion, or self-abandonment.

765 1526.  Tindale, Luke xv. 17. Then he came to him selfe and sayde [etc.].

766 c. 1680.  Beveridge, Serm. (1729), I. 527. Zaccheus … being come unto himself, as soon as Christ was come into his house.

767 1749.  Fielding, Tom Jones, XVIII. ii. But at last, having vented the first torrent of passion, he came a little to himself.

768 1883.  Black, Yolande, III. vii. 129. The people … may come to their senses.

769   46.  Come under ——. a. See 6 b.

770   b.  To rank, fall, or be classed under (a general title, etc.), to be included under.

771 1662.  Stillingfl., Orig. Sacr., III. iv. § 10. So both Greece and Italy come under the name of the Isles of the Gentiles.

772 1816.  Byron, in Moore, Life, 301. Anything of mine coming under the description of his request.

773 1889.  Cornh. Mag., Dec., 567. It might come under the head of useful knowledge.

774   c.  To be brought under the operation of, to be subjected to.

775 1714.  W. Edmundson, Journal, 7. All my parts came under this Exercise.

776 1887.  The Lady, 20 Jan., 38/3. The owners perhaps came under the guillotine.

777 1889.  Law Rep., Appeal Cases, XIV. 533. They had each come under liability to pay the balance due.

778 1890.  Jrnl. Education, 1 Jan., 27/2. Those pupils who … had come under his personal influence.

779   47.  Come unto ——. a. See 3.

780   † b.  = Come to, 45 d. Obs.

781 1568.  Grafton, Chron., II. 308. Three Millions of Scutes of Gold … the which do come unto sterlyng money, fyve hundreth thousand pound.

782 1660.  T. Willsford, Scales Commerce, I. III. 108. How much comes 10d. a day unto by the year?

783   48.  Come upon ——. a. See 3. The special senses are generally derived from the notion of something descending, alighting, or swooping down, with force or weight, upon one; cf. come down upon, 56 g.

784   b.  To attack, esp. suddenly or by surprise.

785 1375.  Barbour, Bruce, XIV. 509. [Thai] Cum sa hardely Apon all the gret cheuelry of Yrland.

786 c. 1460.  Fortescue, Abs. & Lim. Mon. (1714), 89. To resyste our Ennemyes, whan they list to come upon us.

787 1611.  Bible, Gen. xxxiv. 25. And came vpon the citie boldly, and slew all the males.

788 1780.  Coxe, Russian Discov., 191. Katcham … came with such rapidity upon the Russians as to preclude the use of their arms.

789 1816.  Byron, in Moore, Life, 325. They come upon you in bodies of thirty … at a time.

790 1827.  Scott, Tales Grandf., Ser. I. viii. To come upon him suddenly and by night.

791   c.  Said of a divine visitation, retribution, curse, blessing, honor, calamity, etc.

792 1382.  Wyclif, Deut. xxviii. 2. And there shulen come vpon thee alle thes blissyngis. Ibid., 15. And … shulen come vpon thee alle thes malysouns.

793 1535.  Coverdale, Ps. lxxvii[i]. 31. The heuy wrath of God came vpon them, slewe ye welthiest of them.

794 1611.  Bible, Job xxix. 13. The blessing of him that was readie to perish, came vpon me.

795 1714.  Jrnl. W. Edmundson, Pref. 29. Calamity that was coming upon this Nation.

796 1832.  Tennyson, Lady Shalott, III. v. ‘The curse is come upon me,’ cried The Lady of Shalott.

797   d.  Said of overmastering influences, physical or mental.

798 1382.  Wyclif, Ps. liv. 6 [lv. 5]. Drede and trembling camen vp on me.

799 1611.  Bible, 2 Chron. xiv. 14. The feare of the Lord came vpon them.

800 1714.  W. Edmundson, Jrnl., 25. About this time it came weightily upon me to leave Shop-keeping.

801 1850.  Tait’s Mag., XVII. 402/1. A temporary madness seems to have come upon the people.

802 1886.  McCarthy & Praed, Right Hon’ble, III. xxviii. 39. It came upon her now that something subtler … lay at the root.

803   e.  To make an authoritative demand or claim upon (a party liable).

804 1605.  B. Jonson, Volpone, V. iv. I’ll come upon him For that, hereafter.

805 1625.  Massinger, New Way, IV. ii. Sir Giles Will come upon you for security For his thousand pounds.

806 1701.  W. Wotton, Hist. Rome, 466. Turinus then came upon him for the Money.

807 1840.  Dickens, Barn. Rudge, lxxviii. In the damage done to the Maypole, he could ‘come upon the county.’

808 1850.  Tait’s Mag., XVII. 725/2. They might come upon me afterward, and make me pay up.

809   f.  To become legally chargeable on (any charity); to become a burden on.

810 1833.  New Monthly Mag., XXXVII. 278. He had saved money, and could not come upon the parish.

811 1850.  Tait’s Mag., XVII. 336/2. So Betty came upon the parish with all her children.

812   g.  To meet with or fall in with a person or place as it were by chance.

813 1773.  Goldsm., Stoops to Conq., I. You are to go sideways till you come upon Crack-skull Common.

814 1820.  Examiner, No. 637. 414/2. She came upon us by surprise.

815 1849.  Tait’s Mag., XVI. 154/1. The travellers soon came upon a village.

816 1865.  Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., III. 256. I came upon Geraldine in Cheyne Row.

817   Come within ——: see 6, and WITHIN.

818   IX.  With adverbs: forming the equivalents of compound verbs in other languages: e.g., come again, L. revenīre, F. revenir, Ger. wiederkommen.

819   Come is used with adverbs generally, esp. adverbs implying motion toward, as hither, together; only those in which the sense is more or less specialized are here dealt with.

820   49.  Come about.

821   a.  To arrive in the course of revolution; to revolve, ‘come round.’

822 1530.  Palsgr., 489/1. I was borne this day twenty yeres, as the yeres come aboute.

823 1602.  Carew, Cornwall (1811), 187. Each entertaining such foreign acquaintance, as will not fail, when their like turn cometh about, to requite him with the like kindness.

824 1703.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc., 189. If the Diameter of the Rowler be smaller, the work comes so much swifter about.

825 1826.  [see c].

826 1889.  Mrs. Riddell, P’cess Sunshine, I. vi. 96. That movable feast … came about in due season.

827   † b.  Naut. Or the wind: To turn, esp. into a more favorable quarter; to veer round. Obs.

828 1556.  W. Towrson, in Hakluyt, Voy. (1589), 99. This after noone the winde came about.

829 1694.  Narborough, Acc. Sev. Late Voy., I. 176. From the 10th … to this day Noon, the Wind at North-north-west … At Noon … the Wind came about at South.

830 1708.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4464/7. The Wind coming about … to the S.W. the Fleet was oblig’d to alter its Course.

831   c.  To come round to a person’s side or opinion; to turn into a more satisfactory mood, or state; = Come round c, d. Obs. or dial.

832 1609.  B. Jonson, Sil. Wom., IV. i. The Lady Haughty looks well to-day, for all my dispraise of her … I think I shall come about to thee again.

833 1775.  Sheridan, Rivals, I. ii. If you were just to let the servants forget to bring her dinner for three or four days, you can’t conceive how she’d come about.

834 1826.  Cobbett, Rur. Rides (1885), II. 282. Some people … consoled themselves by saying things would come about again … They deceived themselves, things did not come about; the seasons came about, it was true; but something must be done to bring things about.

835   d.  To come in the course of events; to come to pass, happen, turn out; to come to be as it is.

836 c. 1315.  Shoreham, 104. For feawe of ham conne the skele Hou senne aboute cometh.

837 c. 1430.  Syr Gener. (Roxb.), 8775. He meruelled hou it cam aboute.

838 1602.  Shaks., Ham., V. ii. 391. And let me speake … How these things came about.

839 1697.  Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., II. (1709), 90. How comes it about that the Operations of Sense, and Reason vary so much?

840 1883.  Buchanan, Love me for Ever, IV. i. 220. What strange changes had come about in a year!

841   † e.  To fulfil itself; to turn out true. Obs.

842 1592.  Shaks., Rom. & Jul., I. iii. 45. To see now how a Jest shall come about.

843   50.  Come abroad.

844   To come forth from house or seclusion; to come out; to appear before the public, become publicly known, be published. arch.

845 a. 1553.  Udall, Royster D., III. ii. (Arb.), 42. If he come abroade he shall cough me a mome.

846 1565–78.  Cooper, Thesaurus, Abdere se literis … to live unknowne in continualle studdy, and never to com a broade.

847 1576.  Fleming, Panoplie Ep., 204. Stay their edition, and let them not come abroad.

848 1582.  N. T. (Rhem.), Luke viii. 17. For there is not any thing … hid, that shall not be knowen, and come abrode.

849 1677.  Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., To Rdr. 3. Some Writings of mine have without my privity come abroad in Print.

850 1735.  Pope, Prol. Sat., 157. Did some more sober critic come abroad.

851 1823.  J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 17. The acid … usually comes abroad at five times the strength of vinegar.

852   51.  Come again. (See simple senses and AGAIN, esp. A. 1 b.)

853   a.  To come a second time, return.

854 c. 1460.  Towneley Myst., 37. Go home, son, com sone agane.

855 a. 1555.  Latimer, Wks. (Parker Soc.), II. 442. But now, dearly beloved, to come again, be not ashamed of the Gospel of God.

856 1699.  Dampier, Voy., II. II. 22. As she recovered, and made a little way, she would come again to the Wind, till another Sea struck her off again.

857 1812.  Byron, Ch. Har., I. vii. Monks might deem their time was come again. Ibid. (1823), Juan, VIII. xxxv. But Johnson was a clever fellow, who Knew when and how ‘to cut and come again.’

858   † b.  To return to a normal condition; to recover from a swoon, etc. Obs. or dial.

859 1535.  Coverdale, Judg. xv. 19. Whan he dranke, his sprete came agayne, and he was refreszshed.

860 1611.  Bible, 2 Kings v. 14. His fleshe came againe.

861 1818.  Edin. Mag., Dec., 503 (Jam.). My dochter was lang awa [in a swoon], but whan she cam again, she tauld us, etc.

862   c.  To appear after death. dial. (Cf. F. revenu.)

863 1884.  Holland, Chesh. Gloss., s.v., I remember a gentleman, who was drowned whilst skating, was popularly believed to ‘come again.’

864 1831.  Oxfordsh. Gloss., Come again, to return after death. (Also in other dialect Glossaries.)

865   52.  Come along.

866   To move onward (toward or with the speaker): often used as an exhortation.

867 1694.  Narborough, Acc. Sev. Late Voy., I. (1711), 26. I kept a Light out all night, that the Pink might see if she came along.

868 1701.  Farquhar, Sir H. Wildair, II. i. Hang your family dinners! come along with me.

869 1734.  Pope, Ess. Man, IV. 373. Come then, my Friend! my Genius! come along.

870 1837.  Dickens, Pickw., ii. ‘Come along, then,’ said he of the green coat.

871 1850.  Tennyson, In Mem., xxxvii. I murmur’d, as I came along, Of comfort clasp’d in truth reveal’d.

872   53.  Come away.

873   a.  To come on one’s way: see AWAY 1.

874   b.  To come from the place: see AWAY 2.

875 918.  [see AWAY 2].

876 1830.  Tennyson, Oriana. How could I rise and come away, Oriana? Ibid. (1864), North. Farmer, v. I thowt a said what a owt to ’a said an’ I coom’d awaäy.

877   c.  To detach itself, separate: see AWAY 3.

878 Mod.  On grasping it, the handle came away in his hand. A part of the bone must come away first.

879   † d.  To get on or along with; cf. AWAY 16.

880 1605.  Camden, Rem. (1637), 39. There are … many of the French [words] which the Italians can hardly come away withall.

881   e.  To spring out of the ground; to grow apace.

882 1669.  Worlidge, Syst. Agric., vi. § 5 (1631), 98. For the first half dozen years they make no considerable advance, but afterwards they come away miraculously.

883 1765.  Earl Haddington, Forest-trees, 12. This I advise to be done with all the young plants, till they come away so heartily, that neither weed nor grass can stop them in their growth. [Now chiefly dial.]

884   f.  To come forth, issue, turn out.

885 1823.  J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 139. No two makings coming away alike, but depending entirely upon accident.

886   54.  Come back. (See BACK adv. 5–7.)

887   a.  To return (hither), in space, or time; to return to a condition, to the memory, come to mind.

888 1592.  Shaks., Rom. & Jul., I. iii. 8. Nurse come backe againe.

889 1850.  Tait’s Mag., XVII. 665/1. He rallied, and gradually came back to consciousness.

890 1883.  Black, Yolande, II. xi. 198. Whatever happens, he cannot come back on you and say you had deceived him.

891 1890.  Miss Broughton, Alas!, I. ii., in Temple Bar Mag., LXXXVIII. Jan., 9 The very names of those children are coming back to him.

892   b.  Sporting slang. To fall back, lose ground.

893 1885.  Times, 4 June, 10/3. Half way down the hill Royal Hampton began to come back to his horses.

894 1890.  Field, 29 March, 462/2. Wade succeeded in maintaining a lead … but from the seventh mile he began to ‘come back’ to his men.

895   55.  Come by.

896   a.  To come near, usually in passing; to pass.

897 1605.  Shaks., Macb., IV. i. 140. I did heare The gallopping of Horse. Who was’t came by?

898 1709.  Steele, Tatler, No. 109, ¶ 1. There was a great Funeral coming by.

899 1842.  Tennyson, Walking to Mail. John. And when does this come by? James. The mail? At one o’clock.

900   b.  To come aside. dial.

901   56.  Come down.

902   a.  To descend (hither), to come to what is, or is spoken of as, a lower place: see DOWN adv.

903 c. 1340.  Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 5147. When Criste es common doun to deme.

904 1535.  Coverdale, Rev. xii. 12. The deuell is come downe vnto you.

905 1568.  Grafton, Chron., II. 70. At length commeth downe from the Pope two Legates.

906 1773.  Goldsm., Stoops to Conq., I. ii. The gentleman that’s coming down to court my sister.

907 1850.  Tait’s Mag., XVII. 256/1. The Chancellor of the Exchequer comes down to the House of Commons.

908 1885.  Mrs. Lynn Linton, Chr. Kirkland, II. vi. 187. The rain came down like a white sheet.

909   b.  To reach or extend in a downward direction.

910 1632.  Lithgow, Trav., VII. i. 353. Their women … whose vpper gownes come no further downe than their middle thighes.

911 1825.  New Monthly Mag., XV. 21. The latest accounts of the patient come down to the fifteenth day after the operation.

912 1849.  Tait’s Mag., XVI. 12/2. The … forest … comes down to the water’s edge.

913   c.  To descend by birth (obs.) or tradition; to survive from an earlier time to the present.

914 a. 1400–50.  Wars Alex., 3156 (Ashm. MS.). Þat þai ware comen doun of kyngis.

915 1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 101, ¶ 7. Nothing of this Nature is come down to us.

916 1863.  H. Cox, Instit., III. ii. 599. To come down to later times.

917 1879.  M. J. Guest, Lect. Hist. Eng., xxxv. 352. The priests, like everybody else, believed in the fairies, but as the tales of them had come down from the old heathen times they considered them unchristian, and that they ought to be banished.

918   d.  To fall, drop. (Chiefly in sporting phrase.)

919 1787.  ‘G. Gambado,’ Acad. Horsem. (1809), 25. The best bit of flesh that ever was crossed will certainly come down one day or another.

920 1803.  Pic Nic, No. 3 (1806), I. 108. Dr. F— … lost his equilibrium, and came down on the ice.

921 1888.  J. Payn, Myst. Mirbridge, xix. He spurred the animal to leap the horse-trough … and it came down with him.

922 1890.  Field, 8 March, 363/2. The giraffe he fired at came down.

923   e.  To descend in rank or condition; to be humbled, abased, or degraded.

924 1382.  Wyclif, Jer. xlviii. 18. Cum doun fro glorie, sit in thirst, thou dwelling of the doȝter of Dibon.

925 1535.  Coverdale, Deut. xxviii. 43. Thou shalt come downe alowe.

926 1850.  Tait’s Mag., XVII. 633/2. Some folks who are so high will have to come down a peg.

927 1889.  Mrs. Riddell, P’cess Sunshine, I. i. 8. They had come down in the world.

928   f.  To become reduced in size or amount; to be lowered.

929 1640.  in Rushw., Hist. Coll., III. (1692), I. 71. Resolved, That the Popish Commanders and Popish Officers shall be continued in pay till the Money come down, and no longer.

930 1793.  Smeaton, Edystone L., § 315. Its lustre diminished … till it came down to a star of about the third magnitude.

931 1832.  Ht. Martineau, Hill & Valley, iii. 39. When prices fall and wages must come down.

932 1850.  Tait’s Mag., XVII. 719/2. The rent must come down.

933   g.  Come down upon ——: to descend with authority, severity, hostility, or suddenness upon: to make an attack by surprise upon; to make a demand or call that is felt to press on or upon one.

934 1611.  Bible, Ps. vii. 16. His violent dealing shall come downe vpon his owne pate.

935 1861.  Du Chaillu, Explor. Equat. Africa, iv. 33. The treacherous enemy comes down upon a sleeping village.

936 1888.  R. A. King, Leal Lass, I. vi. 117. It’s too bad to come down always on you, only because you’re such a good fellow.

937   h.  Come down (with) ——: to bring or put down; esp. to lay down money; to make a disbursement; also to come down with the needful, dust, pelf, etc. colloq. (cf. 7.)

938 1700.  Congreve, Way of World, III. v. What pension does your lady propose?… she must come down pretty deep now, she’s superannuated.

939 1760.  C. Johnston, Chrysal (1822), II. 248. I’ll make them come down, and handsomely too, or they shall repent it.

940 1836.  Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), IV. 381. The popular phrase of coming down with ‘the dust.’

941 1877.  Scribn. Mag., XV. 288/2. But even rich fathers aren’t willing Always to come down with the pelf.

942   57.  Come forth. (not colloquial.)

943   a.  To advance out of a place of retirement, come out; often as an encouraging or challenging call.

944 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 14349. ‘Lazar,’ wit þis, ‘cum forth’ he badd.

945 a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, xviii. 5. As spouse cumand forth of his chawmbire.

946 1535.  Coverdale, Gen. xxiv. 15. Rebecca the doughter of Bethuel … came forth.

947 1784.  Cowper, Tiroc., 525. If … Your son come forth the prodigy of skill; The pedagogue … Claims more than half the praise. Ibid., Task, II. 445. Forth comes the pocket mirror.—First we stroke An eyebrow, next compose a straggling lock.

948 1808.  Mrs. Hemans, Voice of Spring, 21. Come forth, O ye children of gladness, come!

949 1830.  Tennyson, Ode to Mem., iv. Come forth.

950 1879.  M. J. Guest, Lect. Hist. Eng., xxviii. 286. Now that he [the Black Prince] saw his country’s need he came forth from his quiet retreat.

951   † b.  To come into existence, be born. Obs.

952 1480.  Caxton, Chron. Eng., 3. In this maner they come forth and were borne horryble geants in albyon.

953   † c.  To become published; to come out. Obs.

954 1595.  Barnfield, Cynthia, To Rdrs., Poems (Arb.), 44. The last Terme … there came forth a little toy of mine, intituled, The Affectionate Shepheard.

955 1607.  Shaks., Timon, I. i. 26. When comes your Booke forth.

956 1850.  Tait’s Mag., XVII. 491/2. ‘Childe Harold’ came forth during the same year.

957   58.  Come forward.

958   a.  To approach, come from the background to the front. b. To present oneself before the public, a tribunal, or the like in any capacity. c. To make advances. lit. and fig.

959 1530.  Palsgr., 490/1. Come forwarde, a Goddes name, whye dragge you so ever behynde.

960 1709.  Steele, Tatler, No. 45, ¶ 1. I heard the same Voice say, but in a gentle Tone, Come forward.

961 1722.  De Foe, Plague (1884), 165. The Plague was come forward in the West and North Parts of the Town.

962 1823.  New Monthly Mag., IX. 276/2. Buyers [of rum] are not induced to come forward.

963 1859.  Tennyson, Geraint & Enid, 285. The armourer … Came forward with the helmet yet in hand.

964 1879.  M. J. Guest, Lect. Hist. Eng., xvii. 167. Her [Matilda’s] cousin Stephen, in spite of his oaths, came forward as a candidate for the throne.

965 Mod.  (humorous) They are very backward in coming forward.

966   59.  Come in. (See IN adv. in its various senses.)

967   a.  To enter hither; esp. into a house, room, or enclosure; to enter the field or arena.

968 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 8959. Sco com in at þat ilk yatte.

969 1382.  Wyclif, 1 Kings xiv. 6. And seith, Cum in, wijf of Jeroboam.

970 c. 1400.  Maundev., viii. (1839), 84. Whan we comen in wee diden of oure Schoon.

971 1600.  Shaks., A. Y. L., I. ii. 181. He is the generall challenger, I come but in as others do, to try with him the strength of my youth. Ibid. (1601), Twel. N., I. iii. 4. By my troth sir Toby, you must come in earlyer a nights.

972 1690.  Locke, Hum. Und., II. ii. § 1. The simple ideas thus united in the same subject, are as perfectly distinct as those that come in by different senses.

973 1728.  W. Smith, Univ. College, 271. That he had … twice or thrice knocked to come in.

974 1856.  Whyte-Melville, Kate Cov. (1882), 61/2. A sleepy ‘Come in’ was the reply to my summons.

975 1882.  Daily Tel., 27 May (Cricket). Mr. C. T. Studd … came in third wicket down.

976   b.  To enter as invaders, settlers, occupants, etc.

977 c. 1420.  Chron. Vilod., 12. And þe Denmarkes come þo first ynne.

978 1598.  Bp. Hall, Sat., IV. ii. 136. And tels how first his famous ancestor Did come in long since with the Conquerour.

979 1873.  Tristram, Moab, ix. 174. Traces of aborigines, before the basalt-building inhabitants came in.

980   † c.  (in Script.) To come in unto: to have carnal intercourse with. Obs.

981 1535.  Coverdale, Gen. xix. 31. Not a man more vpon earth that can come in vnto us.

982 1611.  Bible, Gen. xxxviii. 16.

983   d.  To move or advance inwards; to arrive here at its destination; to enter the port, goal, etc.

984 1624.  Bacon, Consid. War with Spain. Our second fleet, which kept the narrow seas, was come in and joined to our main fleet.

985 1667.  Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-all, V. i. Here’s another of our vessels come in.

986 1709.  Steele, Tatler, No. 129, ¶ 1. There came in this Morning a Mail from Holland.

987 1719.  De Foe, Crusoe (1840), I. xv. 256. The tide, as going out, or coming in.

988 1848.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 386. The mails went out and came in only on the alternate days.

989 1888.  Farjeon, Miser Farebrother, II. xix. 256. The ‘dark’ horse … came in fourth.

990   † e.  Fencing. To make a pass or home-thrust, to get within the opponent’s guard. Obs.

991 1596.  Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., II. iv. 241. These nine … Began to giue me ground: but I followed me close, came in foot and hand. Ibid. (1597), 2 Hen. IV., III. ii. 302. Hee would about, and about, and come you in, and come you in.

992 a. 1625.  Fletcher, Bloody Bro., V. ii. Oh, bravely thrust! Take heed he come not in, sir. To him again; you give him too much respite.

993   † f.  To submit, yield, give in one’s adhesion.

994 1520.  Hen. VIII., Lett., in St. Papers Hen. VIII., II. III. 57. O’Neil, and the other Irish captains [have] come in, and … recognised us as their sovereign lord.

995 1560.  in E. Lodge, Illust. Brit. Hist. (1791), I. 332. My Lord of Norfolke was ready to com in.

996 1596.  Spenser, State Irel., Wks. (Globe), 658/1. Touching the arche-rebell himselfe … if he … should offer to come in and submitt himselfe to her Majestie.

997 1687.  Burnet, Cont. Refl. Varillas, 124. Seeing the Queen’s Forces encrease, and that none came in to him.

998 1828.  Scott, Tales Grandf., Ser. II. xxv. Glencoe had not come in within the term prescribed.

999   g.  To be successful in a candidature; to be elected; to come into power.

1000 1705.  Hearne, Collect., 7 Dec. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), I. 118. He came in Rector.

1001 1820.  Examiner, No. 619. 124/1. Mr. March Phillips … came in for Leicestershire in 1818, on the Whig interest.

1002 1825.  New Monthly Mag., XIV. 15. A character for public speaking, which … must inevitably lead … whenever the Whigs should come in, to a seat in the British Senate.

1003 1890.  Sat. Rev., 17 May, 586/1. Mr. Gladstone says that the statement that he came in on allotments in 1886 … is … untrue.

1004   h.  Of things: To be brought or given in.

1005 a. 1067.  Char. Eadweard, in Cod. Dipl., IV. 195. Ani land sy owt of ðen biscopriche ʓedon, ich wille ðæt hit cume in onʓean.

1006 1885.  Mrs. Lynn Linton, Chr. Kirkland, I. i. 15. At Easter, eggs came in by the hundred.

1007 1890.  Sat. Rev., 12 July, 35/1. Subscriptions will continue to come in.

1008   i.  To come into hand as revenue or receipts. (Cf. INCOME.)

1009 1588.  Shaks., L. L. L., V. ii. 2. Sweet hearts we shall be rich ere we depart, If fairings come thus plentifully in. Ibid. (1596), 1 Hen. IV., IV. i. 55. We may boldly spend, vpon the hope Of what is to come in.

1010 a. 1670.  Hacket, Abp. Williams, I. (1692), 201. He was profuse in hospitality … To maintain all this, he had plenty coming in.

1011 1833.  New Monthly Mag., XXXVII. 347. Coming in as the incomes of literary men do.

1012   j.  Natural productions (e.g., vegetables, oysters), etc., are said to come in, when they begin to be in season, and come into hand for use; so to come in usefully, opportunely, and the like. In the current phrases, to come in handy, come in useful, etc., there is a blending of this notion with others, ‘to come in opportunely and prove useful.’

1013 1879.  M. J. Guest, Lect. Hist. Eng., xxxiii. 330. The snow and the storms came in so well to help the Welsh that Owen gained the character of a great magician, who could govern the weather as it suited him.

1014 1884.  H. Coxwell, Contemp. Rev., Oct., 536. The system of balloon signalling … would have come in opportunely.

1015 1888.  McCarthy, Ladies’ Gallery, II. v. 69. The knowledge came in handy now.

1016 1889.  Mrs. E. Kennard, Landing a Prize, I. xii. 207. They have come in most useful.

1017 1890.  Sat. Rev., 8 Feb., 157/2. Even cats … come in useful.

1018   k.  To enter into a narrative, account, or list; to intervene in the course of anything; to take its place, esp. with reference to the place or manner. Cf. sense 6 b.

1019 1596.  Shaks., Tam. Shr., II. i. 365. Gre. If whil’st I liue she will be onely mine. Tra. That only came well in. Ibid. (1610), Temp., II. i. 77. Widow? A pox o’ that: how came that Widdow in? Widdow Dido!

1020 1820.  Examiner, No. 648. 587/1. But justice comes in here, as it comes in at every corner of this rotten question.

1021 1886.  Mrs. Hungerford, Lady Branksmere, II. xxix. 158. Where does the joke come in?

1022   l.  To come into use, vogue, or fashion.

1023 c. 1380.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 117. Þei han grete lordischipis amorteised to hem … þis amorteisynge comeþ in bi ypocrisie of preiynge be mouþ.

1024 1652.  Needham, trans. Selden’s Mare Cl., 24. For thence came in private Dominion or Possession.

1025 a. 1684.  Earl Roscom., Works (1753), 97.        Then came rich clothes and graceful action in, Then instruments were taught more moving notes.

1026 1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 172. After the Revolution, Jacobite plots came in.

1027 1890.  Blackw. Mag., CXLVII. 510/2. Now that … croquet has come in.

1028   m.  Of a time or season: To enter or begin.

1029 1526.  Tindale, Rom. xi. 25. Vntyll the fulnes of the gentyls be come in.

1030 1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., V. iii. 52. Now comes in the sweete of the night.

1031 1719.  De Foe, Crusoe (1840), I. xvi. 275. The settled season began to come in.

1032 1890.  Blackw. Mag., CXLVII. 133/1. The year comes in royally.

1033   † n.  To come in with: to overtake; to meet; to fall in with. Obs.

1034 1557.  R. Woodman, in Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 1801/2. Ere euer I could arise and get away, he was come in with me.

1035 1724.  De Foe, Mem. Cavalier (1840), 191. In this pickle … I came in with him.

1036   o.  To come in for: to be included among those who receive a share of anything; to receive incidentally.

1037 1665.  Bp. Patrick, Pilgrim, xxi. 218. We come in for a share of all their gettings.

1038 1697.  Collier, A Thought, Ess. (1702), II. 84. If Thinking is essential to Matter, Stocks and Stones will come in for their share of Privilege.

1039 1848.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 366. Bystanders whom His Majesty recognised often came in for a courteous word.

1040 1885.  Mrs. Lynn Linton, Chr. Kirkland, III. ix. 298. She came in for her share of a fine property.

1041   p.  To come in upon, on: to enter one’s mind as a powerful impression, to be borne in upon.

1042 1886.  McCarthy & Mrs. C. Praed, Right Hon’ble, II. xxiii. 180. It came more and more in upon her that she had known from the very first.

1043 1889.  Stevenson, Master of B., vi. 186. Has it never come in upon your mind what you are doing?

1044   60.  Come near. To approach in place, order, qualities, etc.: see NEAR. So come nigh.

1045 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 14123 (Cott.). Ne mans wijt þar mai cum nere.

1046 1662.  Stillingfl., Orig. Sacræ, III. ii. § 3. To which those expressions of Plato in his Timæus come very near.

1047 1726.  Swift, Gulliver (1869), 190/1. The horse started a little when he came near.

1048 1878.  Scribn. Mag., XV. 24/2. We came very near having a smash-up.

1049 1889.  Stevenson, Master of B., xi. 298. The Indian … came near to pay the penalty of his life.

1050   61.  Come off.

1051   † a.  Formerly in imperative as a call of encouragement to action: come! come along! come on! Obs.

1052 c. 1386.  Chaucer, Friar’s T., 304. Yis quod this Somonour … Com of, and lat me ryden hastily. Yir me xii. pens.

1053 1413.  Lydg., Pilgr. Sowle, IV. xx. (1483), 66. Come of, come of, and slee me here as blyue.

1054 1470–85.  Malory, Arthur, XX. iv. Come of thenne, sayd they alle, and do hit [open a door].

1055 1481.  Caxton, Reynard, B. vij. Why tarye ye thus longe, come of.

1056 1526.  Skelton, Magnyf., 103. Come of, therefore, let se; Shall I begynne or ye.

1057 1530.  Palsgr., 418. Come of, my scolers … I shall shewe you many thinges, or ça, mes escoliers.

1058 1557.  Sarum Primer, Complin, E iij. Come of therfore our patronesse, Cast upon us those pitifull eyes of thyne.

1059   b.  To come away from a place in which one has been, e.g., a ship, a coast, etc.

1060 a. 1480.  Siege of Rouen, in Collect. Lond. Cit. (Camden 1877), 41. But massyngers thedyr he sende, Bade them to come of and make an end.

1061 1699.  Dampier, Voy., II. I. viii. 154. The next day Capt. Minchin came off.

1062 1743.  J. Bulkeley & Cummins, Voy. S. Seas, 108. Made a Signal for the Boats to come off.

1063 1825.  Cobbett, Rur. Rides (1885), II. 1. We came off from Burghclere yesterday afternoon, crossing Lord Carnarvon’s park.

1064   † c.  To desist, cease from. Obs.

1065 1711.  H. Felton, Classicks (J.). To come off from these grave disquisitions, I would clear the point by one instance more.

1066 a. 1714.  Burnet, Own Time, II. 31. To forgive every one that should come off from his opposition.

1067   † d.  ‘To deviate; to depart from a rule or direction’ (J.). Obs.

1068 1626.  Bacon, Sylva, § 221. The Figure of a Bell partaketh of the Pyramis, but yet comming off, and dilating more suddenly.

1069   e.  To become detached; to detach oneself.

1070 1833.  New Monthly Mag., XXXVII. 486. Eve handled it, and no doubt the apple came off in her fingers.

1071 1837.  Dickens, Pickw., xxxiii. Mr. Weller … attacked the Reverend Mr. Stiggins with manual dexterity. ‘Come off!’ said Sam.

1072 1850.  Tait’s Mag., XVII. 26/1. The tail … came off in his hand.

1073 1890.  Univ. Rev., 15 March, 302. The wheel of the car came off in the middle of the road.

1074   f.  To leave the field of combat; to retire or extricate oneself from any engagement; usually with reference to the manner, as to come off with flying colors, second best, badly, safely, victorious, a loser, etc.

1075 1596.  Shaks., Merch. V., I. i. 128. But my cheefe care Is to come fairely off from the great debts. Ibid. (1607), Cor., I. vi. 1. We are come off, Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands, Nor Cowardly in retyre.

1076 1630.  R. Johnson, Kingd. & Commw., 26. His few well led men came ever off with victory.

1077 1684.  Bunyan, Pilgr., II. 68. Some Pilgrims in some things come off losers.

1078 1748.  Smollett, Rod. Rand., ix. Blessing ourselves that we had come off so well.

1079 1829.  Scott, Tales Grandf., Ser. III. xxiii. He had come off victorious … in every action in which he had been engaged.

1080 1883.  A. Dobson, Fielding, 70. In this controversy … Cibber did not come off worst.

1081   † g.  To get off, escape. Obs.

1082 1634.  Milton, Comus, 647. I … Entered the very lime-twigs of his spells, And yet came off.

1083 1667.  N. Fairfax, in Phil. Trans., II. 547. She had a dangerous Feaver, with a Diarrhœa, but came off.

1084 c. 1716.  South (J.). If, upon such a fair and full trial, he can come off, he is then clear and innocent.

1085   † h.  To acquit oneself well, etc. Obs.

1086 1647.  W. Browne, trans. Polexander, I. 14. Cunning but capricious Artisans, which come off in nothing so well as in making Monsters.

1087   † i.  Of things: To come to an issue or result; to turn out. Obs.

1088 1591.  Shaks., Two Gent., II. i. 116. Sil. I thanke you (gentle Seruant) ’tis very Clerkly-done. Val. Now trust me (Madam) it came hardly-off. Ibid. (1607), Timon, I. i. 29. Pain. ’Tis a good Peece. Poet. So ’tis, this comes off well, and excellent.

1089 1823.  J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 171. This imitation … which comes off nearest to the mineral is as follows.

1090   j.  Of a thing on hand: To come to the issue; to take place, be carried out.

1091 1825.  C. M. Westmacott, Eng. Spy, I. 368. The event has not come off right.

1092 1841.  J. T. Hewlett, Parish Clerk, III. 142. A race to come off on the sands.

1093 1865.  Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., III. 286. First dinner (called luncheon), which comes off at two o’clock.

1094   † k.  To pay, disburse: cf. come down, come out.

1095 1598.  Shaks., Merry W., IV. iii. 13. They shall haue my horses, but Ile make them pay … they must come off.

1096 1601.  Holland, Pliny, II. 539. Neither would Protogenes part with any of his pictures vnto them, vnlesse they would come off roundly and rise to a better price than before time.

1097 1636.  Davenant, Wits, in Dodsley (1780), VIII. 512. We ’ll make her costive Beldamship Come off.

1098 1639.  Massinger, Unnat. Combat, IV. ii. Will you come off, sir?

1099   l.  Sporting euphem. To fall off. Cf. 2 c.

1100 1881.  Mrs. O’Donoghue, Ladies on Horseback, I. i. 7. I confess I don’t like to see a girl come off.

1101   62.  Come on.

1102   a.  To advance hitherward: often implying hostile intent.

1103 c. 1400.  Sowdone Bab., 2873. Than wole I, þat ye come on In haste to that same place.

1104 c. 1430.  Lydg., Smyth & Dame, in Hazl., E. P. P., III. 209. The smyth … Called on hys dame Jone, And bad her com on fast.

1105 1535.  Coverdale, Jer. xlviii. 14. The destruction off Moab commeth on a pace.

1106 1603.  Shaks., Meas. for M., V. i. 400. The swift celeritie of his death, Which I did thinke, with slower foot came on.

1107 1603.  Knolles, Hist. Turks (J.). The great ordnance once discharged, the armies came fast on.

1108 1722.  De Foe, Col. Jack (1840), 238. Their troops … came on again to the charge with such fury, that, etc.

1109 1889.  Standard, 9 Dec., 5/7. He will come on to Zanzibar on Thursday.

1110   b.  To advance in growth or development; to progress, thrive, grow, get on, improve.

1111 1606.  Marston, Sophonisba, II. i. States come on With slow advice, quicke execution.

1112 1626.  Bacon, Sylva (J.). It should seem by the experiments, both of the malt and of the roses, that they will come far faster on in water than in earth.

1113 1689.  Hickeringill, Ceremony-monger, 38. Like a young Setting-dog … there ’s hopes of him, he ’s coming on.

1114 1759.  Phil. Trans., LI. 182. He seemned to come on but slowly while the shocks were slight.

1115 1853.  C. McIntosh, Bk. Garden, 473. Crops of cauliflower, etc., that may be coming on too fast.

1116 1890.  Field, 15 Feb., 232/3. No. 7 [oarsman] has hardly come on as fast as expected. Ibid., 8 March, 355/1. He [a dog] has come on tremendously in head.

1117   c.  To come so as to prevail disagreeably; to supervene: said of night, winter, bad weather, fits or states of illness.

1118 c. 1400.  Sowdone Bab., 892. The nyghte come on ful sone.

1119 1485.  Caxton, Chas. Gt., 83. The nyght came on.

1120 1603.  Knolles, Hist. Turks (J.). Until winter were come on.

1121 1694.  Narborough, Acc. Sev. Late Voy., I. (1711), 126. Night coming on, we here pitched our tent.

1122 1712.  W. Rogers, Voy., 4. It came on to blow.

1123 1830.  ‘Juan De Vega’ [C. Cochrane], Jrnl. Tour, xx. (1847), 138. It came on to rain.

1124 1840.  R. Dana, Bef. Mast, xiv. We encountered another south-easter … it came on in the night.

1125 1879.  Carpenter, Ment. Phys., I. ii. 75. Whenever the paroxysm came-on.

1126 1886.  McCarthy & Mrs. C. Praed, Right Hon’ble, I. vi. 99. The night had come on wet.

1127 1894.  1st Rep. Roy. Comm. Opium, App. III, 81/1. The usual attack of fever came on yesterday, passing through the regular stages of shivering, hot and dry skin, with thirst and headache, succeeded by profuse perspiration.

1128   d.  To come upon the board for discussion or settlement; to come in course to be dealt with.

1129 1737.  Pope, Hor. Epist., II. ii. 96. Before the Lords at twelve my Cause comes on.

1130 1789.  T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), III. 64. The question of the St. Domingo deputation came on.

1131 1833.  New Monthly Mag., XXXVIII. 132. The next day comes on Sir John Key’s motion.

1132 1890.  Sat. Rev., 22 March, 340/2. The … Bill had come on for second reading.

1133   e.  To come upon the stage or scene of action.

1134 1833.  New Monthly Mag., XXXVIII. 225. Then came on a small man.

1135 1888.  McCarthy & Praed, Ladies’ Gallery, III. viii. 168. Ransom began to grow impatient, and to wonder if Berenice was never to come on.

1136 1890.  Field, 10 May, 672/2. At this stage Mr. Woods came on to bowl.

1137   f.  Come on! the imperative is used as a call to urge someone to advance towards or to accompany (the speaker), or to proceed with anything; esp. used as a challenge or call of defiance.

1138 c. 1450.  Guy Warw. (C.), 1860. Gye beganne on hym to crye Harrawde, come on smertlye.

1139 1503.  Hawes, Examp. Virt., iii. 29 Come on fayre youth and go with me.

1140 1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., III. ii. 1. Come-on, come-on, come-on: giue mee your Hand, Sir; giue mee your Hand, Sir. Ibid. (1603), Meas. for M., II. i. 144. Now Sir, come on: What was done to Elbowes wife, once more?

1141 1738.  Pope, Epil. Sat., II. 14. Come on then, Satire!… Spread thy broad wing, and souse on all the kind.

1142 1837.  Dickens, Pickw., ii. ‘Come on,’ said the cab-driver, sparring away like clock-work. ‘Come on—all four on you.’

1143 1888.  E. Gosse, Raleigh, ix. 201. Struck down as he was shouting ‘Come on, my men!’

1144   63.  Come out.

1145   a.  lit. i.e., out of a place, a house, etc., into the open; to emerge, issue forth.

1146 c. 950.  Lindisf. Gosp., John xi. 43. Ðu latzar cymm ut.

1147 c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 63. And fereð in to helle … ut ne cumeð he nefre ma.

1148 c. 1380.  Sir Ferumb., 2643. Frenschemen … þat buþ now comen out of þe tour.

1149 1535.  Coverdale, Numb. xx. 11. And Moses … smote ye rocke … Then came ye water out abundantly.

1150 1611.  Bible, Luke xv. 28. Therefore came his father out.

1151 1722.  De Foe, Col. Jack (1840), 137. Go in there a slave, and come out a gentleman.

1152 1820.  W. Irving, Sketch Bk., Christmas Eve (Rtldg.), 86/2. The squire came out to receive us.

1153   b.  esp. ‘out into the field,’ i.e., to fight.

1154 [a. 1498.  Warkw., Chron. (Camden Soc.), 14. Kynge Edwarde sent a messyngere to them, that yf thai wulde come oute, that he wulde feght withe them.]

1155 1611.  Bible, Judg. ix. 29. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine armie and come out.

1156 1805.  Blackwood, in Nicolas, Disp. Nelson (1846), VII. 130, note. At this moment the Enemy are coming out.

1157 1829.  Scott, Tales Grandf., Ser. III. lxxxiv. Their simple and ignorant followers, who came out [in 1745] in ignorance of the laws of the civilized part of the nation.

1158   c.  with the notion of leaving one’s employment; as to come out on strike.

1159 1885.  Manch. Exam., 20 May, 4/7. Seventeen … came out on strike yesterday morning.

1160 1889.  Daily Tel., 3 Dec., 5/5. He had the promises of 300 to come out ‘in sympathy’ when the time came for quitting work.

1161   d.  With complement: To emerge (in a specified manner) from a contest, competition, examination.

1162 1848–60.  Bartlett, Dict. Amer., s.v., ‘How did you come out?’ means, how did you fare in your undertaking?

1163 1868.  Holme Lee, B. Godfrey, xxxiv. 186. He will come out a double-first.

1164 1881.  Mrs. C. Praed, Policy & P., I. xiii. 289. I have set my heart on coming out winner.

1165 1889.  Stevenson, Master of B., iv. 128. He had been put to his defence, he had come lamely out.

1166   e.  To appear, as the sun, moon, or stars; to emerge from behind the clouds, etc.

1167 1832.  Tennyson, May Queen, II. iv. I wish the snow would melt and the sun come out on high.

1168 1883.  Mrs. C. Praed, Moloch, I. I. vii. 132. The stars came out in the blue overhead.

1169 1889.  Temple Bar Mag., Nov., 308. The moon will come out when the wind goes.

1170   f.  To protrude, project, extend. (See 5.)

1171 1694.  Narborough, Voy. S. & N., II. 118. Between the Scales on both sides the Knobs come out commonly three or four together.

1172 1715.  Desaguliers, Fires Impr., 23. The other [end] at top … coming out into the Room.

1173   † g.  To come to an end, expire, ‘run out.’ Obs.

1174 1560.  Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 241 b. The trewes commeth oute at October nexte.

1175   h.  To come into public view or notice, as from concealment; to become public; to be played, as a card.

1176 c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 73. Leste hit uttere cume þat hie tweien witen.

1177 1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. XIX. 156. Þus cam it out þat cryst ouer-cam, rekeuered and lyued; For þat wommen witeth may nouȝte wel be conseille!

1178 c. 1460.  Towneley Myst., 194. Els on the shalle I be wrokyn or thi ded com Alle outt.

1179 1625.  Massinger, New Way, V. i. All will come out.

1180 1781.  Ann. Reg., Hist. Europe, 193*/2. The proceedings of the committee must all come out in the end.

1181 1796.  Nelson, 20 Nov., in Nicolas, Disp. (1845), 304. We have all of us some [damages] when the truth comes out.

1182 1886.  Mrs. C. Praed, Miss Jacobsen’s Chance, I. iv. 68. All this came out incidentally.

1183 1889.  ‘B. W. D.’ & ‘Cavendish,’ Whist w. Perception, 35. Two rounds of diamonds come out.

1184   i.  To appear or be found as the result of investigation or computation, or as the solution of a problem.

1185 a. 1699.  Stillingfl. (J.). It is indeed come out at last, that we are to look on the saints as inferior deities.

1186 1705.  Arbuthnot, Table Coins, Weights, & M. (J.). The weight of the denarius, or the seventh of a Roman ounce, comes out sixty-two grains and four sevenths.

1187 1781.  Ann. Reg., Hist. Europe, 162*/2. If … it should come out, that the vice admiral’s complaints were founded.

1188 1816.  Playfair, Nat. Phil., II. 21. If tan Long. come out negative, the longitude is greater than a semicircle.

1189 1883.  Black, Yolande, I. xviii. 355. I think it will come out all right.

1190 1890.  Bedford Directory, 1. The death rate came out at a little under 13·28.

1191   j.  To come into visible development, display itself; as leaves, flowers, eruptive diseases, etc. As said of a photographic effect, there is often a mixture of senses i. and k.

1192 1575.  Turberv., Venerie, 242. His heade, when it commeth first out, hath a russet pyll vpon it.

1193 1724.  Lond. Gaz., No. 6306/2. The Small Pox are come out very violently on the Queen.

1194 1836.  Dickens, Sk. Boz, 6. Some strange eruption that had come out in the night.

1195 1890.  Graphic, 10 May, 539/3. The lilacs are coming out.

1196 Mod.  The leaves are just coming out. We took photographs, but the details have not come out very well.

1197   k.  To become evident; to show itself prominently.

1198 1820.  Examiner, No. 614. 43/1. They come out upon the eye with a satisfying power.

1199 1849.  Tait’s Mag., XVI. 177/2. The evil came out in a very marked way after 1843.

1200 1883.  A. Roberts, O. T. Revision, iii. 50. Here comes out one of the most characteristic blemishes of the Authorised Version.

1201 1890.  New Rev., April, 290. The same arrogance came out, sometimes with startling distinctness.

1202   l.  To be offered to the public; to issue from the press, be published. Cf. come out with, 65.

1203 1573.  Baret, Alv., To Rdr. Sir Thomas Eliots Librarie, which was come out a little before.

1204 1602.  Return fr. Parnass., I. ii. (Arb.), 9. What new paper hobby horses … are come out in your late May morrice daunce.

1205 1710.  Steele, Tatler, No. 232, ¶ 2. All the Writings and Pamphlets which have come out since the Trial.

1206 1791.  Boswell, Johnson (1831), I. 186. A few numbers of the Rambler had come out.

1207 1848.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 389. The London Gazette came out only on Mondays and Thursdays.

1208 1890.  Sat. Rev., 15 Feb., 199/1. The new Russian loan … came out this week.

1209   m.  To show oneself publicly (in some character or fashion); to declare oneself (in some way); to make a public declaration of opinion.

1210 1637.  Rutherford, Lett., No. 167 (1862), I. 390. Eyes to discern the devil now coming out in his whites.

1211 1837.  Dickens, Pickw., xxxvii. When he began to come out in this way.

1212 1844.  Fraser’s Mag., XXX. 584/2. I have hoards of gold laid by … and could come out as a Crœsus when I chose.

1213 1850.  Tait’s Mag., XVII. 425/2. Why you come out so strong in favour of one cause?

1214 1876.  Stubbs, Early Plantag., iv. 65. Now he [Becket] comes out as a candidate for martyrdom.

1215   n.  To make a début on the stage or in some kindred professional character.

1216 1820.  Examiner, No. 637. 414/2. When she came out in Mandane … she came upon us by surprise.

1217 1831.  F. A. Kemble, Lett., in Rec. of Girlh., II. viii. 229. I am to come out in Bianca, in Milman’s ‘Fazio.’

1218 1837.  Ht. Martineau, Soc. Amer., III. 171. She studies … as if she were coming out next year in a learned profession.

1219 1888.  McCarthy & Mrs. C. Praed, Ladies’ Gallery, III. i. 23. A young girl … who was coming out at a matinée.

1220   o.  To make a formal entry into ‘society’ on reaching womanhood (a recognized indication of this in English society being presentation at court).

1221 1782.  Miss Burney, Cecilia, VI. ii. (D.). She has seen nothing at all of the world, for she has never been presented yet, so she is not come out, you know, but she’s to come out next year.

1222 1806–7.  J. Beresford, Miseries Hum. Life (1826), XV. xv. A practical hint afforded by the daughter, as she is ‘coming out’ that it is time for Mamma to think of going in.

1223 1852.  Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., xxii. 224. These jewels I’m going to give you when you come out. I wore them to my first ball.

1224   p.  To make public profession of religion. U.S. dial.

1225 1860.  Widow Bedott Papers, 108 (Bartlett). Them special efforts is great things—ever since I come out, I’ve felt like a new critter.

1226   64.  Come out of.

1227   a.  lit. To issue or emerge from; to be brought or exported from (a place).

1228 c. 1225.  St. Marher., 2. Ter com ut of asie toward antioche.

1229 1340.  Cursor M., 23204 (Trin.). He þat doukeþ ones þer doun Comeþ neuer out of þat prisoun.

1230 a. 1498.  Warkw., Chron. (Camd. Soc.), 2. Thei came oute of the castelle.

1231 1553.  in Camden Misc. (1853), II. Request, 10. And corn, which commeth so plentuously oute of Pollande.

1232 1611.  Bible, Mark v. 2. When hee was come out of the ship.

1233 1709.  Steele, Tatler, No. 142, ¶ 4. I am just come out of the Country.

1234 1808.  Scott, Marm., V. xii. O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west.

1235   b.  To emerge from (a state or condition); to escape or extricate oneself from, get out of.

1236 c. 1220.  Bestiary, 56, in O. E. Misc. Hu he [the eagle] cumeð ut of elde.

1237 1375.  Barbour, Bruce, III. 41. To withdraw ws, ws defendand, Till we cum owt off thar daunger.

1238 c. 1420.  Sir Amadace (Camd.) xxxi. Ȝette God may me sende of his sele, That I may … cum owte of this wo.

1239 1611.  Bible, Rev. vii. 14. These are they which came out of great tribulation.

1240 1677.  Horneck, Gt. Law Consid., iv. (1704), 103. When men … come out of their apprenticeship.

1241 1710.  Steele, Tatler, No. 212, ¶ 7. He is just come out of the Small-Pox.

1242 1849.  Tait’s Mag., XVI. 184/1. They … came out of all the confiscations consequent on rebellion, better than they entered them.

1243 1890.  A. C. Doyle, Capt. ‘Polestar,’ etc. 234. She continued to watch him fixedly, with a look of interest upon her face, until he came out of his reverie with a start, and turned abruptly round, so that his gaze met hers.

1244   c.  To issue or proceed from (a source, cause, antecedent, etc.).

1245 1605.  Bacon, Adv. Learn., I. vii. § 13. A speech … liker to have comen out of the mouth of Aristotle, or Democritus.

1246 1792.  in Ann. Reg., 1826, Hist. & Biog., 162/2. Something will come out of all this.

1247 1847.  Emerson, Repr. Men, Plato, Wks. (Bohn), I. 288. Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought.

1248 1849.  Tait’s Mag., XVI. 78/2. Can good come out of such bloody scenes?

1249 1875.  Jevons, Money (1878), 117. It … comes out of the economy with which the work is managed.

1250   d.  To extend or lead out of (a place); to project or grow out of. (Cf: 5.)

1251 c. 1400.  Lanfranc’s Cirurg. (MS. A.), 26. Þe toþer arterie þat comeþ out of þe lift-side of þe herte.

1252 1611.  Bible, Hab. iii. 4. He had hornes comming out of his hand.

1253 1663.  Gerbier, Counsel, 72. The Staires comming out of the Lodgings into Saint James Parke.

1254   65.  Come out with (cf. 7, and 63 m.). To bring out; to publish, utter, give vent to.

1255 c. 1460.  Towneley Myst., 194. Be it hole worde or brokyn, com out with som.

1256 1589.  Pappe w. Hatchet (1844), 41. Pasquil is coming out with the liues of the Saints.

1257 1685.  Gracian’s Courtier’s Orac., 10. If he come out with a saying, it is to amuse the attention of his Rivals.

1258 1837.  Dickens, Pickw., vi. Mr. Winkle came out with jokes which are very well known in town.

1259   66.  Come over.

1260   a.  lit. To come, passing over a river, sea, mountain, or simply, intervening space; to cross.

1261 1605.  Shaks., Lear, III. vi. 30. She dares not come over to thee.

1262 1611.  Bible, Acts xvi. 9. There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come ouer into Macedonia, and helpe vs.

1263 1760.  Voy. W. G. Vaughan, II. 4. The same captain I came over with to Calais.

1264 1827.  Scott, Tales Grandf., Ser. I. iv. The Percies are descended from a great Norman baron, who came over with William.

1265 1848.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 343. A bookseller named Michael Johnson … came over from Lichfield.

1266   † b.  To come upon one, alight, descend. Obs.

1267 1382.  Wyclif, Prov. xxvi. 2. So curs in veyn spoken in to sum man shal comen ouer.

1268   c.  To pass over during distillation.

1269 1641.  French, Distill., ii. (1651), 50. Distill them … and there will come over a water of no small vertue.

1270 1793.  T. Beddoes, Calculus, etc., 239. If the heat applied be too great, carbonic acid air will come over instead of oxygene air.

1271   d.  To change sides, passing to that with which the speaker identifies himself.

1272 1576.  Fleming, Panoplie Ep., 119. Yet notwithstanding, tenne of the best and chiefest of his horsemen, came over unto mee.

1273 1655–60.  Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 117/2. Cleander came over to them.

1274 1687.  Burnet, Contn. Refl. Varillas, 141. Many of the Earl of Pembroke’s men came over to him.

1275 1774.  Goldsmith, Hist. Greece, I. 282. This made the rest … come over to Demosthenes’s opinion.

1276 1826.  Disraeli, Viv. Grey, VII. i. The Prince has come over … he is going to live at Court.

1277   † e.  To prevail, use persuasion successfully. Obs. Cf. come over one, 43 f.

1278 1742.  Richardson, Pamela, IV. 156. Have you thus come over with me, Pamela?

1279   f.  In colloq. phrase, To come over faint, sick, ill, and the like to have a feeling of faintness, etc., come over one.

1280 1916.  W. Freeman, Bill’s Pterodactyl, in Royal Mag., XXXVII. 484/2. Bill’s knees began to knock together, and he came over sick and faint.

1281   67.  Come round.

1282   a.  To come by a circuitous route; to come in the course of a circuit, or in taking a walk round; to come in an incidental or informal way.

1283 1826.  Cobbett, Rur. Rides (1885), II. 49. My sons came round, in the chaise, by Andover and Weyhill.

1284 1837.  Dickens, Pickw., xxxviii. Every time he [the lamplighter] comes round.

1285 1888.  F. Warden, Witch of Hills, II. xxii. 176. She said she might come round this evening.

1286   b.  To come with the revolution of time or events.

1287 a. 1625.  Fletcher, Bloody Bro., V. ii. Farewell, my sorrows, and my tears take truce, My wishes are come round.

1288 1842.  Tennyson, Lady Clare, v. ‘O God be thank’d!’ said Alice the nurse, ‘That all comes round so just and fair.’

1289 1844.  Fraser’s Mag., 572/2. A new order of things had come round.

1290 1888.  B. W. Richardson, Son of a Star, III. xiv. 248. The festivals come round and the people assemble.

1291   c.  To veer round, as the wind, to a more favorable quarter; to turn favorably in opinion.

1292 1818.  Todd, To come round, to change; as, the wind came round.

1293 1825.  New Monthly Mag., XIV. 363. I begin … to come round to my uncle’s opinion.

1294 1852.  Dickens, Bleak Ho., xx. I had confident expectations that things would come round.

1295   d.  To return to a normal state or to a better mood after a fit of ill temper; to recover from a swoon, illness, etc.

1296 1841.  Ld. Mount-Temple, in Life Shaftesbury, x. (1887), 209. It’s better to give them time to come round.

1297 1861.  Dickens, Gt. Expect., xvi. She came round so far as to be helped down stairs.

1298 1865.  Trollope, Belton Est., xv. 169. She … allowed him to go on with his grumbling. He would come round by degrees.

1299   68.  Come to.

1300   a.  Analytical form of OE. tó-cuman to arrive, come, to be present; L. advenīre.

1301 c. 975.  Rushw. Gosp., Matt. vi. 10. Cume to þin rice [Lindisf. to-cymeð ric ðin].

1302 1382.  Wyclif, Matt. xxvi. 60. Whenne many fals witnessis hadden cummen to.

1303   b.  Naut. To come to a standstill, rest, or fixed position; also, to come ‘close to the wind.’

1304 1726.  Shelvocke, Voy. round World, iii. (1757), 99. In the fright he had forgot he had a graplin in the boat to come to with.

1305 1769.  Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), Rarrivée, the movement of coming-to, after having fallen off, when a ship is lying-by, or trying.

1306 1805.  A. Duncan, Mariner’s Chron., III. 225. They resolved, being near shoal water … to come-to, and rest themselves for the night.

1307 1840.  R. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxiv. The gale having gone over, we came-to.

1308   c.  To come round to reconciliation, accord, or a pleasant mood. Obs. exc. dial.

1309 1701.  Swift, Mrs. Harris’ Petit. What if after all my chaplain won’t come to?

1310 1765.  Logan, in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem., X. 8. For a long time behaved oddly, but he has come to again.

1311 1749.  Fielding, Tom Jones, XVIII. viii. I thought Sophia was a just coming to.

1312 1890.  (Still common dialectally).

1313   d.  To recover (from a swoon, etc.); to revive, come round.

1314 a. 1572.  Knox, Hist. Ref., 275 (Jam.). Thoch I be not in perfyte helthe, yet I find myself in very gude in the cuming to.

1315 1832.  Marryat, N. Forster, xlix. Isabel was the first to come to.

1316 1861.  Dickens, Gt. Expect., iv. He had just been all but choked, and had that moment come to.

1317 1879.  Browning, Ivan Ivanov., 55. Chafe away, keep chafing, for she moans: She’s coming to!

1318   69.  Come up.

1319   a.  lit. To come from a lower to a higher position, or to a place viewed as higher, or as a center, e.g., the capital, or a university.

1320 c. 888.  K. Ælfred, Boeth., xl. § 13. He cymþ eastan up.

1321 1516.  in E. Lodge, Illust. Brit. Hist. (1791), I. 15. If I shulde com up to London the next terme.

1322 1726.  Swift, Gulliver (1869), 60/2. They came up to town.

1323 1777.  Sheridan, Sch. Scand., IV. iii. I thought you would not choose Sir Peter to come up without announcing him.

1324 1844.  Dickens, in Story of his Life, 156. I am here—just come up from underground.

1325 Mod.  He is coming up to Balliol College next term.

1326   b.  To come close forward (to).

1327 1362.  Langl., P. Pl., A. Prol. 70. Þe lewede Men … comen vp knelynge.

1328 c. 1386.  Chaucer, Pard. T., 582. Com vp ye wyues, offreth of your wolle.

1329 1666.  Temple, Lett., I. 55. When he came up, tho’ with much Civility.

1330 1688.  Miége, Fr. Dict., To come up, accoster, aborder.

1331 1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 106, ¶ 7. The Gentleman we were talking of came up to us.

1332 1714.  W. Edmundson, Jrnl., 34–5. William Moore, going by, saw me standing, and coming up to me, said, he was very sorry to see me there.

1333 1862.  Trollope, Orley F., xiv. 109. As he spoke he came up to her and took her hand.

1334 1886.  McCarthy & Praed, Right Hon’ble, II. xv. 47. One comes up smiling and ready for the next round.

1335   c.  Of persons following: To come right forward from the rear; esp. to come up with, to come so as to be abreast of, to overtake; to reach.

1336 1678.  Bunyan, Pilgr., I. 35. Just as Christian came up with the Cross.

1337 1699.  Dampier, Voy., II. II. i. 34. Though we followed … a good way, yet did not come up with him.

1338 1714.  W. Edmundson, Jrnl., 67. When we came up with the Land of Ireland the wind turn’d North East.

1339 1781.  Ann. Reg., Hist. Europe, 55/2. Tarleton came up with his enemy at eight in the morning. Ibid., 59/2. The rear of the column being come up.

1340 1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 243. Macarthy soon came up to support Hamilton.

1341 1863.  Kingsley, Water-bab., 12. Soon they came up with a poor Irishwoman.

1342   d.  To spring up out of the ground, as a plant.

1343 1535.  Coverdale, Job xiv. 2. He commeth vp and falleth awaye like a floure.

1344 1545.  Ascham, Toxoph., I. (Arb.), 28. The corne commeth thinne up.

1345 1860.  Geo. Eliot, Mill on Fl., I. v. The same flowers come up again every spring.

1346 1884.  Mrs. Ewing, Mary’s Meadow, xi. (1886), 66. The time-honoured prescription, ‘Plant a primrose upside down, and it will come up a polyanthus.’

1347   e.  To take rise, originate, come into use, become the fashion.

1348 c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr. (Rolls), 246. Thus miche is ynouȝ … forto knowe how ydolatrie came up.

1349 1549.  Latimer’s Serm., ii. To Rdr. (Arb.), 51. Belyke they [termes] wer not used and commen up in his time.

1350 1593.  Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., IV. ii. 10. Well, I say, it was neuer merrie world in England, since Gentlemen came up.

1351 1704.  Swift, T. Tub, Wks. (1869), 62/1. Before they were a month in town, great shoulder-knots came up.

1352 1847.  L. Hunt, Men, Women, & Bks., I. ix. 161. This gentleman, who died not long after policemen came up.

1353   † f.  To rise in rank or position. Obs.

1354 1530.  Palsgr., 425. I am come up, as a man is that from povertie is come to rychesse … He his mervaylously come up within a yere or two.

1355 1535.  Coverdale, 2 Chron. xxi. 4. When Ioram came vp ouer his fathers kyngdome.

1356 1561.  T. Hoby, trans. Castiglione’s Courtyer (1577), Y vj b. No[t] to seeke to come vp by any noughty or subtil practise.

1357   g.  To present itself as the subject of attention; to arise, to turn up; to rise in the mind.

1358 1844.  Fraser’s Mag., XXX. 102/2. Now and then a name would come up in the conversation which I remembered.

1359 1886.  Mrs. C. Praed, Miss Jacobsen’s Chance, II. x. 138. Chepstowe’s talk … would keep coming up in her mind and disturbing all her efforts.

1360 1889.  Sat. Rev., 23 Nov., 582/1. That [question] has not come up, and is not likely to come up for many years.

1361   h.  To rise in amount or value; to amount to; to rise to the level or height of; to attain to some standard or requirement, to equal.

1362 1611.  Shaks., Wint. T., II. i. 193. He Whose ignorant credulitie, will not Come vp to th’ truth.

1363 1695.  Woodward, Nat. Hist. Earth (J.). All these will not come up to near the quantity requisite.

1364 1708.  Swift, Sacram. Test. We of Ireland are not yet come up to other folks refinements.

1365 1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 62, ¶ 8. These Writers … not being able to come up to the beautiful Simplicity of the old Greeks and Romans.

1366 1750.  [R. Pultock], Life P. Wilkins, xx. (1883), 60/1. No tailor can come up to it.

1367 1820.  Examiner, No. 622. 173/1. His vocal pieces do not come up to Mozart’s.

1368 1889.  Mrs. E. Kennard, Landing a Prize, III. vi. 118. The results did not quite come up to his anticipations.

1369   i.  Naut. To come to a direction; to come as near to the wind as a ship will bear.

1370 1633.  T. James, Voy., 19. The winde … came vp at South.

1371 1694.  Narborough, Acc. Sev. Late Voy., I. (1711), 169. At 11 in the Forenoon the Wind came up at SSE, and foggy.

1372 1743.  Bulkeley & Cummins, Voy. S. Seas, 17. The greatest Part of the Night she came up no nearer than S. by W. and S. S. W. At Four in the Morning she came up with her Head West.

1373 1833.  Marryat, P. Simple, xv. She has come up again.

1374 1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., s.v., A close-hauled ship comes up (to her course) as the wind changes in her favour.

1375   j.  Naut. trans. To slacken (a rope, cable, etc.).

1376 1704.  J. Harris, Lex. Techn., s.v. Capstain, Come up Capstan, that is, slack the Cable which you heave by.

1377 1849.  Weale, Dict. Terms, 114/2. To ‘come up’ a rope or tackle, is to slack it off.

1378 c. 1850.  Rudim. Navig. (Weale), 107. To come up, to cast loose the forelocks or lashings of a sett, in order to take in closer to the plank.

1379   k.  In the imperative, a call to a horse. dial.

1380 1877.  N. W. Linc. Gloss., Come-up, said to horses to urge them on.

1381 1884.  Chesh. Gloss., Come up, an expression used to an animal when it is required to move.

1382 1888.  Under-Currents, I. i. 3. He … implores them [horses] to ‘come up’ or ‘go on,’ as occasion demands.

1383   l.  Marry come up! see MARRY.

1384   ☞ Phrase-key. (The prepositional constructions in VIII., and adverbial combinations in IX., are not included.) Come! imper. 33; come pres. conj. 34; come Easter, etc. 35; come eight days, etc. 35 b; coming! 36; coming six, etc. 30; (time) to come, 32; to coming, 32 β; come (as butter or cheese), 15; come a-begging, etc., 3 c; come and —, 3 d; c and go, 26; c a cropper, 29 b; c cheap, 24 b, c; c down in the world, 56 e; c down upon, 56 g; c down with, 56 h; c easy, 24 b, c; c from, 11; c in for, 59 o; c in place, 23; c in sight or view, 6; c in useful, etc. 59 j; c in one’s way, 6 b; c in with, 59 n; c into action, contact, etc., 12; c into bloom, ear, flower, etc., 12 b; c into court, market, 4 b; c into one’s head, mind, so b; c into view, 6; c into the world, 4 c; c it, 27, 28; c natural, 24 c; c on! 62 f; c out with, 65; c thanks, 31; c to all, 45 g; c to be or to do, 3 b, 23 b; c to bear, 2 b; c to an end, 5 b; c to a halt, 2 c; c to a point, 5 b; c to one’s knowledge, 10 b; c to little, much, nothing, 45 g; c to oneself, one’s senses, 45 h; c to one’s turn, 22; c to pass, 21; c to place, 23; c to the bar, the hammer, 4 b; c to the rescue, 4 a; c to the worst, 45 g; c true, 24 c; c under notice, etc., 6 b; c upon the parish, 48 f; c one’s ways, 3 g; c within (one’s) reach, within the scope of, 6 b.

1385   For other phrases, as come AMISS, HOME, SHORT, SPEED, of AGE, to ANCHOR, to BLOWS, to CLOSE QUARTERS, to GRIEF, to HAND, to HEEL, to LIFE, to LIGHT, to NATURE, to the FRONT, to the POINT, to TERMS, to TIME, to an UNDERSTANDING, up to the MARK, to the SCRATCH, come you SEVEN, etc., see under these words.

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