incur

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Incurred p. pr. & vb. n. Incurring ] [ L. incurrere to run into or toward; pref. in- in + currere to run. See Current. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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, penalty, responsibility, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

I know not what I shall incur to pass it,
Having no warrant. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To render liable or subject to; to occasion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To pass; to enter. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Light is discerned by itself because by itself it incurs into the eye. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. incurabilité incurability, LL. incurabilitas negligence. ] The state of being incurable; irremediableness. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person diseased beyond cure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See In- not, and Curable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

A scirrhus is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rancorous and incurable hostility. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were laboring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance. Sir J. Stephen.

Syn. -- Irremediable; remediless; irrecoverable; irretrievable; irreparable; hopeless. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being incurable; incurability. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner that renders cure impracticable or impossible; irremediably. “Incurably diseased.” Bp. Hall. “Incurably wicked.” Blair. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. incuriositas: cf. F. incurosité. ] Lack of curiosity or interest; inattentiveness; indifference. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incuriosus: cf. F. incurieux. See In- not, and Curious. ] Not curious or inquisitive; without care for or interest in; inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carelessnesses and incurious deportments toward their children. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]