INCUR

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable or subject to; to bring down upon one's self; to encounter; to contract; as, to incur debt, danger, displeasure I know not what I shall incur to passShak.

2.
v.

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

3.
v.

To pass; to enter. [Obs.] Light is discerned by itself because by itself it incurs into the eye. South.