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oncame

oncame is the simple past of oncome.

Meaning of oncome

Verb

oncome (third-person singular simple present oncomes, present participle oncoming, simple past oncame, past participle oncome)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To arrive; come to; come on.
    • 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 [...]1844, Homerus, The Iliad, rendered in Homeric verse, by L. Shadwell

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Questions about oncame

What is oncame the simple past of?
Oncame is the simple past of oncome.

Words near oncame in the dictionary

  1. onbringings
  2. onc
  3. ONCA
  4. oncaeid
  5. oncaeids
  6. oncame
  7. once
  8. once a man, twice a boy
  9. once a man, twice a child
  10. once a thief, always a thief
  11. once a woman, twice a child

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