Incumbent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INCUMBENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a person who holds an ecclesiastical benefice, or any office
• the holder of an office or post
• the holder of an ecclesiastical benefice.
• person who holds a particular office or position
• A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.
• the official who holds an office
ADJECTIVE:
• imposed on
• necessary for (someone) as a duty or responsibility
• (of an official or regime) currently holding office
• (of a company) having a sizeable share of a market
• Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.
• Lying, resting, or imposed, as a duty or obligation; obligatory; always with on or upon.
• Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them.
• Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else; as, the incumbent toe of a bird.
• lying or leaning on something else
• necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
• currently holding an office
• morally binding as a duty
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice

Words related to INCUMBENT

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Words that contain INCUMBENT

incumbents16 incumbently20 nonincumbent18 nonincumbents19 superincumbent22 superincumbentl23 superincumbently27

How to use INCUMBENT in a sentence

• The master of an infant school, whenever opportunity occurs, should feel it incumbent upon him to urge the parents to make a due use of judicious parental authority.
• Eaton, the former incumbent, goes out as minister to Spain.
• It is, however, incumbent on me to give the original, with a literal translation.
• She therefore felt it incumbent upon her to prove these prognostications unfounded, and demonstrate the practicability of the undertaking.
• Menneval bore up, his antagonists were closing fast on his weather-quarter, and unless he meant to fight to leeward, it was incumbent on him to get out of the way, in his turn.
• If therefore you would consult your interest, which seems to be your only consideration, it is incumbent upon you by all means immediately to retract that.
• The new incumbent tried conciliation, but it failed.
• The well-known Bishop Ancona had lately died, and the new incumbent was a young man from the interior of Mexico, who had been here but a few months.
• Dogs, too, like men, seem to feel it incumbent on them to howl more than usual in hot weather, and to bay the moon with particular earnestness in July.
• It was incumbent on him to pay one more visit to the cliffs and he journeyed on.
• We do not speak of its being incumbent on a man to run out of a burning house, or to swim, if he can, when thrown into deep water.
• Surely the sentiments natural to a person or incumbent upon him do not depend on the duration of his being, but on the character, endowments, and relations of his being.
• It is, therefore, incumbent upon every father to teach and instruct his children according to his possibilities.
• It is incumbent upon each child to know something of music, for without knowledge of this art the melodies of instrument and voice cannot be rightly enjoyed.
• First, it is incumbent upon all mankind to investigate truth.
• It is incumbent upon everyone, in this day, to perceive with the eye of God, and to hearken with His ear.
• It is incumbent on thee to offer many thanks to the Merciful Lord for this great favor in the world of humanity.
• This last Letter is written with so urgent and serious an Air, that I cannot but think it incumbent upon me to comply with her Commands, which I shall do very suddenly.
• The incumbent, himself a fine reader, had taken great pains to teach his child the necessary and simple, but much neglected art of reading well.
• The responsibility was great, but as the hunt had been for me it seemed incumbent upon me to accept responsibility.
• These misleading assurances encouraged Lamoriciere, but in any case he would probably have thought it incumbent on him to make what stand he could.
• Once or twice the incumbent had been called away, and his child and I were left together.
• An unpleasant altercation which arose between the temporary incumbent of the office and the Government of the Pasha resulted in a suspension of intercourse.
• The reply thereto is incumbent upon his Majesty, from whom the decree emanated.
• Good example is particularly incumbent on all who are exalted to rule, whether in larger, or smaller communities.
• It seemed incumbent upon the prosecutor to make some sort of a statement, but the attorney for the defence interposed.
• If there was one thing incumbent upon the second son of the late Lord Westenhanger, it was that he maintain his position.
• Before quitting the hotel he feels it incumbent upon himself to see Lady Ruth, and tell her where he is going.

Similar words containing CUMB without suffix ent and without prefix in

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