Come (?), v. i.
[imp. Came (?); p. p.
Come (?); p. pr & vb. n. Coming.]
[OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.
kuman, D. komen, OHG. queman, G.
kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan.
komme, Goth. giman, L. venire
(gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr. gam. √23. Cf.
Base, n., Convene,
Adventure.] 1. To move hitherward; to
draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person
indicated; -- opposed to go.
Look, who comes yonder?
Shak.
I did not come to curse thee.
Tennyson.
2. To complete a movement toward a place;
to arrive.
When we came to Rome.
Acts xxviii. 16.
Lately come from Italy.
Acts xviii. 2.
3. To approach or arrive, as if by a
journey or from a distance. "Thy kingdom come."
Matt. vi. 10.
The hour is coming, and now is.
John. v. 25.
So quick bright things come to
confusion.
Shak.
4. To approach or arrive, as the result
of a cause, or of the act of another.
From whence come wars?
James iv. 1.
Both riches and honor come of thee !
1 Chron. xxix. 12.
5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to
appear.
Then butter does refuse to come.
Hudibras.
6. To get to be, as the result of change
or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come
untied.
How come you thus estranged?
Shak.
How come her eyes so bright?
Shak.
☞ Am come, is come, etc., are frequently
used instead of have come, has come, etc., esp. in
poetry. The verb to be gives a clearer adjectival
significance to the participle as expressing a state or condition
of the subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply
the completion of the action signified by the verb.
Think not that I am come to destroy.
Matt. v. 17.
We are come off like Romans.
Shak.
The melancholy days are come, the saddest
of the year.
Bryant.
Come may properly be used (instead of go) in
speaking of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference to
an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall come home
next week; he will come to your house to-day. It is used
with other verbs almost as an auxiliary, indicative of approach
to the action or state expressed by the verb; as, how came
you to do it? Come is used colloquially, with reference to
a definite future time approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it
will be two years, come next Christmas; i. e., when
Christmas shall come.
They were cried
In meeting, come next Sunday.
Lowell.
Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention,
or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us go.
"This is the heir; come, let us kill him." Matt. xxi.
38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste, or
impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no
time for lamentation now." Milton.
To come, yet to arrive, future. "In
times to come." Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese
to come." Shak. -- To come about.
(a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to
result; as, how did these things come about?
(b) To change; to come round; as, the ship
comes about. "The wind is come about."
Shak.
On better thoughts, and my urged reasons,
They are come about, and won to the true side.
B. Jonson.
-- To come abroad. (a)
To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am
come abroad to see the world." Shak.
(b) To become public or known. [Obs.]
"Neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come
abroad." Mark. iv. 22. -- To come
across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or
suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental
mention of those wars." E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was
certainly one of the strongest and most independent natures I
ever came across." H. R. Haweis. -- To come
after. (a) To follow.
(b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to
come after a book. -- To come
again, to return. "His spirit came
again and he revived." Judges. xv. 19. - - To
come and go. (a) To appear and
disappear; to change; to alternate. "The color of the king
doth come and go." Shak. (b)
(Mech.) To play backward and forward. --
To come at. (a) To reach;
to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to come at a true
knowledge of ourselves. (b) To come
toward; to attack; as, he came at me with fury. --
To come away, to part or depart. --
To come between, to intervene; to separate;
hence, to cause estrangement. -- To come
by. (a) To obtain, gain,
acquire. "Examine how you came by all your state."
Dryden. (b) To pass near or by way
of. -- To come down. (a)
To descend. (b) To be humbled.
-- To come down upon, to call to account,
to reprimand. [Colloq.] Dickens. -- To come
home. (a) To return to one's house
or family. (b) To come close; to press
closely; to touch the feelings, interest, or reason.
(c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the
ground; -- said of an anchor. -- To come
in. (a) To enter, as a town, house,
etc. "The thief cometh in." Hos. vii. 1.
(b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes
in. (c) To assume official station
or duties; as, when Lincoln came in.
(d) To comply; to yield; to surrender.
"We need not fear his coming in" Massinger.
(e) To be brought into use. "Silken
garments did not come in till late." Arbuthnot.
(f) To be added or inserted; to be or become
a part of. (g) To accrue as gain from
any business or investment. (h) To
mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in
well. (i) To have sexual intercourse; --
with to or unto. Gen. xxxviii. 16.
(j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the
cow will come in next May. [U. S.] -- To come
in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came
in for subsidies." Swift. -- To come
into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to;
to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme. -
- To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the
advantage of. [Colloq.] -- To come
near or nigh, to approach in place or
quality; to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems to
come near it." Sir W. Temple. -- To come
of. (a) To descend or spring
from. "Of Priam's royal race my mother came."
Dryden. (b) To result or follow
from. "This comes of judging by the eye."
L'Estrange. -- To come off.
(a) To depart or pass off from.
(b) To get free; to get away; to escape.
(c) To be carried through; to pass off; as,
it came off well. (d) To acquit
one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.); as, he came
off with honor; hence, substantively, a come-off, an
escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.] (e)
To pay over; to give. [Obs.] (f) To
take place; to happen; as, when does the race come
off? (g) To be or become after some
delay; as, the weather came off very fine.
(h) To slip off or be taken off, as a
garment; to separate. (i) To hurry away;
to get through. Chaucer. -- To come off
by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by
the worst." Calamy. -- To come off from,
to leave. "To come off from these grave
disquisitions." Felton. -- To come on.
(a) To advance; to make progress; to
thrive. (b) To move forward; to
approach; to supervene. -- To come out.
(a) To pass out or depart, as from a country,
room, company, etc. "They shall come out with great
substance." Gen. xv. 14. (b) To become
public; to appear; to be published. "It is indeed come
out at last." Bp. Stillingfleet. (c)
To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this affair
come out? he has come out well at last.
(d) To be introduced into society; as, she
came out two seasons ago. (e) To
appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out.
(f) To take sides; to take a stand; as, he
came out against the tariff. -- To come out
with, to give publicity to; to disclose. --
To come over. (a) To pass
from one side or place to another. "Perpetually teasing
their friends to come over to them." Addison.
(b) To rise and pass over, in
distillation. -- To come over to, to
join. -- To come round.
(a) To recur in regular course.
(b) To recover. [Colloq.]
(c) To change, as the wind.
(d) To relent. J. H. Newman.
(e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]
-- To come short, to be deficient; to fail
of attaining. "All have sinned and come short of the
glory of God." Rom. iii. 23. -- To come
to. (a) To consent or yield.
Swift. (b) (Naut.) (with the accent
on to) To luff; to bring the ship's head nearer the
wind; to anchor. (c) (with the accent on
to) To recover, as from a swoon.
(d) To arrive at; to reach.
(e) To amount to; as, the taxes come
to a large sum. (f) To fall to; to
be received by, as an inheritance. Shak. --
To come to blows. See under
Blow. -- To come to grief. See
under Grief. -- To come to a head.
(a) To suppurate, as a boil.
(b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.
-- To come to one's self, to recover one's
senses. -- To come to pass, to happen;
to fall out. -- To come to the scratch.
(a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the
scratch or mark made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
beginning a contest; hence: (b) To meet
an antagonist or a difficulty bravely. [Colloq.] --
To come to time. (a) (Prize
Fighting) To come forward in order to resume the contest
when the interval allowed for rest is over and "time" is
called; hence: (b) To keep an
appointment; to meet expectations. [Colloq.] -- To
come together. (a) To meet for
business, worship, etc.; to assemble. Acts i. 6.
(b) To live together as man and wife.
Matt. i. 18. -- To come true, to
happen as predicted or expected. -- To come
under, to belong to, as an individual to a
class. -- To come up (a)
to ascend; to rise. (b) To be
brought up; to arise, as a question. (c)
To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a plant.
(d) To come into use, as a fashion. --
To come up the capstan (Naut.), to
turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about
it. -- To come up the tackle fall
(Naut.), to slacken the tackle gently.
Totten. -- To come up to, to rise
to; to equal. -- To come up with, to
overtake or reach by pursuit. -- To come
upon. (a) To befall.
(b) To attack or invade.
(c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent
upon for support; as, to come upon the town.
(d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to
come upon hid treasure.