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▪ I. † incoˈmmode, a. (n.) Obs.
[a. F. incommode (16th c. in Godef. Compl.), ad. L. incommodus inconvenient, f. in- (in-3) + commodus convenient: see commode a.]
1. Inconvenient, troublesome; = incommodious 1.
1672Wycherley Love in Wood Ded., To be obliging to that excess as you are..is a dangerous quality, and may be very incommode to you. 1686tr. Agiatis 75 Think of gaining the esteem of the World, and never shew your self incommode. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) V. 202 If those streams of hair were incommode in a battle, I know nothing they were adapted to. Ibid. 264 Vertue was incommode; he loved truth.
2. Unsuitable, unfitting; = incommodious 4.
1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 31 It seems more incommode to say that God moves and predetermines to al other acts.
B. n. An inconvenience, incommodity.
1518Wolsey Let. to Ambass. France in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) I. i. 22 Advoiding sundry incommodes and inconveniences that might follow thereof.
▪ II. incommode, v.|ɪnkəˈməʊd|
[a. F. incommode-r (15th c. in Littré), ad. L. incommodāre to inconvenience: see incommodate v.]
1. trans. To subject to inconvenience or discomfort; to trouble, annoy, molest, embarrass, inconvenience.
1598Florio, Incomodare, to incommode, to trouble, to disease [etc.]. 1672–3Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 111 The King would find himself incommoded with all that furniture upon his back. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. iii. 87 Every breath of wind would incommode us. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) V. viii. 96 Not that..I would incommode the lady. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 334 We had been, for some weeks past, so accustomed to sleep entirely in the open air, that, at first, the confinement of a chamber incommoded us. 1883J. Hawthorne Dust II. 96 The revelation could be so managed as not to incommode anyone.
2. To affect with inconvenience; to hinder, impede, obstruct (an action, etc.).
1702W. J. Bruyn's Voy. Levant liv. 210 A wooden Shed, which very much incommodes their marching in Procession. 1775Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 13 July, The hay harvest is here very much incommoded by daily showers. 1802Med. Jrnl. VIII. 37 The breathing was much incommoded when she reclined on a sofa or bed. |