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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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.

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