Lexic.us

Definition of Incumbent

1. Adjective. Lying or leaning on something else. "An incumbent geological formation"

2. Noun. The official who holds an office.

3. Adjective. Necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding. "It is incumbent on them to pay their own debts"

4. Adjective. Currently holding an office. "The incumbent governor"

Definition of Incumbent

1. a. Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.

2. n. A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.

Definition of Incumbent

1. Adjective. Imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office. ¹

2. Adjective. (geology) Resting on something else. ¹

3. Adjective. Being the current holder of an office or a title. ¹

4. Noun. The current holder of an office, such as ecclesiastical benefice or a an elected office. ¹

5. Noun. (business) A holder of a position as supplier to a market or market segment that allows the holder to earn above-normal profits. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Incumbent

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Medical Definition of Incumbent

1. Of the orientation of an embryo, with the cotyledons lying face to face and folded downwards beside the radicle, of anthers, lying against the inner face of the filament. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incumbent

inculpably inculpate inculpated inculpates inculpating inculpation inculpations inculpative inculpatory incult

incultivated incultivation inculturation incumbencies incumbency incumbent (current term) incumbent on(p) incumbently incumbents incumber

incumbered incumbering incumberingly incumberment incumberments incumbers incumbrance incumbrancer incumbrancers incumbrances

Literary usage of Incumbent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"The act creating the city court of Athens fixes the tenure of office of the Judge at four years; but this does not mean that an incumbent, for whom no ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"In general the vestry consists of the incumbent of the ... They are bound to pay the incumbent the salary agreed upon, and it is out of their power to ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Since the rupture of diplomatic relations between France and the Holy See in 1904, this office has had no incumbent; (3) Madrid, which, since the Council of ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"In the eye of the law an incumbent is a tenant for life of his benefice, and any waste, voluntary or permissive, on his part must be made good by his ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Dilapidations and Nuisances by David Gibbons (1849)
"CHAPTER I. DILAPIDATIONS BY incumbent OF AN ECCLESIASTICAL BENEFICE.. Nature of the Obligation.—2. What Persons bound; Archbishops, &c.—3. Vicar.—4. ..."

6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"He was educated privately under a clergyman, the incumbent of the neighbouring parish of Irby. His friends desired him to become a clergyman in the ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... is to defraud another not a party to such a conveyance, or the intent of which is to avoid some debt or duty due by or incumbent on the party making it. ..."

8. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"As the greater number were of some trade or profession, it was incumbent on them, by the strictest integrity and the fairest dealing, to remove the ..."

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