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onfall

noun

Etymology

From Middle English onfal, onfalle, equivalent to on- + fall. Cognate with Dutch aanval (“an attack, assault”), German Anfall (“an attack, seizure, fit”), Swedish anfall (“an attack, offensive, assault”). Compare also Middle English onfallynge (“an onslaught, attack”).

  1. inherited from onfal

Definitions

  1. A falling on or upon

    A falling on or upon; an attack, onset, or assault.

    • Are we to have military onfall; and death also by starvation?
    • The onfall of the bishops had helped to wreck this possibility, [...]
    • Along with your 'brethren, Get ready your scaling ladders, And your engines of onfall and assault, To attack the walls of Khung.

  2. A fall of rain or snow.

  3. The fall of the evening.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To fall on or upon.

      • [...] have been formed and ripened in large numbers, especially on the shaded ower sides of the leaves, the mycelium is practically exhausted, and as these processes are completed towards the end of the summer, the leaf so onfalls.
      • 'the temple caught fire from the onfallen lightning' [...]
      • Quasivertical and quasihorizontal faults filled with crushed rocks can substantially change the amplitude of a seismic wave behind the fault in comparison with the amplitude of an onfalling wave [...]

    2. To assault, attack.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA