Ailment vs Oncome - What's the difference?
ailment | oncome |
(rare) To arrive; come to; come on.
*1844 , Homerus, The Iliad, rendered in Homeric verse, by L. Shadwell :
*1999 , Alfred Corn, Stake: poems, 1972-1992 :
Advent, arrival, approach; onset
*1978 , Edna O'Brien, I hardly knew you :
The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.
The setting about of an action; development; progress.
An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode.
*1881 , American journal of obstetrics and diseases of women and children: Volume 14 :
*1906 , Appleton's magazine: Volume 7 :
(dialectal) A mysterious disease or ailment.
*1858 , Sir Walter Scott, The bride of Lammermoor :
(dialectal) A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst.
(of a chimney) The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.
As nouns the difference between ailment and oncome
is that ailment is something which one; a disease; sickness while oncome is advent, arrival, approach; onset.As a verb oncome is
(rare) to arrive; come to; come on.oncome
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) oncomen, from (etyl) oncuman, .Verb
- This said, and shaking his long dark spear, then forward he hurl'd it Into the fullround buckler of Priamides Alexander; Right thro' his glittering shield oncame the redoubtable warspear, On still advanced, throughpiercing his breastplate's various-art-work [...]
- A trip from you. Taken. . . . Then time oncame [...]
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- I see the dawn or rather I feel the oncome of it.
- On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.
- "She often has oncomes ," explained Angus shortly. "But now we will tell, for though but children, we talk straighter."
- This woman had acquired a considerable reputation among the ignorant by the pretended cures which she performed, especially in oncomes , as the Scotch call them, or mysterious diseases, which baffle the regular physician.