downcome
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
downcome (plural downcomes)
- A tumbling or falling down; a sudden or heavy fall; an overthrow; ruin; destruction.
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, 1st book, pages 9-10:
- And doutles, when ever the Pope shall fall, if his ruine bee not like the sudden down-come of a Towre, the Bishops, when they see him tottering, will leave him, and fall to scrambling […]
- In ironmaking, a pipe that leads combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.
- A downpour of rain.
Verb edit
downcome (third-person singular simple present downcomes, present participle downcoming, simple past downcame, past participle downcome)
- To come down; fall down; come or fall apart.
- 1958, Botteghe Oscure - Issue 21, page 174:
- Mirage-bound and moving blind, he downcomes, Up-growing from his sapling game In the laughing park, Bearing the stolen spark
- 1995, Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Page 242:
- Everthing downcame today Anne the world's spinning out and I spec we finally all going to be riding raw.
- 2013, Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence, →ISBN:
- If she exes I don't know what would downcome.