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Incumbent   /ɪnkˈəmbənt/   Listen
Incumbent

noun
1.
The official who holds an office.  Synonym: officeholder.
adjective
1.
Lying or leaning on something else.
2.
Necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding.
3.
Currently holding an office.



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"Incumbent" Quotes from Famous Books



... after the governorship of the individual States, and yet the incumbent was to be at the head of the Thirteen States. Rufus King is frequently quoted to the effect that the men of that time had been accustomed to considering themselves subjects of the British king. Even at the ...
— The Fathers of the Constitution - Volume 13 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Max Farrand
... the duties which of right fell to the incumbent, and intrusted with the spiritual guardianship of the dependants of the castle, our young clergyman had ample occupation for all his time, if not a sufficient theatre for his usefulness. Isabel and himself remained the year ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper
... deities of almost every nation we have subdued, and have suffered without objection the preachers of this new doctrine to make converts. The persecutions that have already begun against the sect are not because they believe in this Christus, but because they refuse to perform the duties incumbent upon all Roman citizens. Two of my slaves belong to the sect. They know well that I care not to what religion they belong, and indeed, for my part, I should be glad to see all my slaves join them, for the moral ...
— Beric the Briton - A Story of the Roman Invasion • G. A. Henty
... no small part in these attempts and led to a good deal of misunderstanding, for he felt it incumbent on him to try his codes in every possible dialect. Instead of the usual cheery "Good morning," a major of a famous Highland regiment was scandalised by an elderly subaltern blethering out, "Cannibal—Custard—Claymore—Caramel," in an abominable Scotch ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Nov. 28, 1917 • Various
... this tampering with an election is for the last time. What will succeed the Empire, I know not. God grant it may not be our country's ruin! But the state of things under which we live cannot last long. It is incumbent on honest men to lay before the emperor the state of the country, which his ministers do their best to keep from him. For a long time I kept silent,—it was no use to knock one's head against a wall; but now we have ...
— France in the Nineteenth Century • Elizabeth Latimer


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