Defn: Cumbersome; troublesome. [Written also encombrous.] [Obs.]
Chaucer.
INCUNABULUM In`cu*nab"u*lum, n.; pl. Incunabula. Etym: [L. incunabula cradle, birthplace, origin. See 1st In-, and Cunabula.]
Defn: A work of art or of human industry, of an early epoch; especially, a book printed before A. D. 1500.
INCUR
In*cur", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incurred; p. pr. & vb. n. Incurring.]
Etym: [L. incurrere to run into or toward; pref. in- in + currere to
run. See Current.]
1. 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. 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.
INCUR
In*cur", v. i.
Defn: To pass; to enter. [Obs.] Light is discerned by itself because by itself it incurs into the eye. South.
INCURABILITY In*cur`a*bil"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. incurabilité incurability, LL. incurabilitas negligence.]
Defn: The state of being uncurable; irremediableness. Harvey.