different between behove vs incumbent

English

Etymology

From Middle English behoven, bihoven (“to be necessary, requisite; to be compelled or required (to do something)”), from Old English beh?fian (“to need; to be necessary”), from Proto-Germanic *bih?f?n? (“advantage, behoof, profit; need”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh?p- (“to grab, seize”). The word is cognate with Old Frisian bih?via (“to need”), Dutch behoeven (“to need”), obsolete German behufen (cf. Behuf), Danish behøve (“to need”), Norwegian behøve (“to need”), Swedish behöva (“to have use for, to need”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??h??v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bi?ho?v/
• Rhymes: -??v
• Hyphenation: be?hove

Verb

behove (third-person singular simple present behoves, present participle behoving, simple past and past participle behoved)

1. (transitive, formal) To befit, to suit.
2. (transitive, formal) To be necessary for (someone).
3. (transitive, formal) To be in the best interest of; to benefit.
4. (intransitive, formal) To be needful, meet or becoming.

Alternative forms

• behoove (chiefly US)

Related terms

• behoof
• behoveful
• behovely

Derived terms

• behovable, behoovable

Translations

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• byhove, bihove, behoove, behoofe, byhufe, beove

Etymology

From Old English beh?fe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi?ho?v(?)/

Noun

behove (uncountable)

1. Benefit, advantage.
2. Duty.

Usage notes

This term is typically found as part of a dative phrase beginning with to, unto or at; e.g., “to þy behove” means “to your advantage".

Synonyms

• behofþe

Related terms

References

• “bih??ve, n. (orig. dative).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 April 2018.

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from stem incumbent-, of Medieval Latin incumb?ns (“holder of a church position”), from Latin present participle of incumb? (“I lie down upon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?k?mb?nt/

Adjective

incumbent (comparative more incumbent, superlative most incumbent)

1. Imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office.
   • December 22 1678, Thomas Sprat, A Sermon Preached before the King at White-Hall

     all men truly Zelous , will […] endeavor to perform the first kind of good Works alwaies; those, I mean, that are incumbent on all Christians

2. Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent.
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture

     two incumbent figures, gracefully leaning upon it

   • to move the incumbent load they try

3. Prevalent, prevailing, predominant.
4. (botany, geology) Resting on something else; in botany, 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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)

5. (zoology) Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else.

6. Being the current holder of an office or a title.

Derived terms

• incumbency

Translations

Noun

incumbent (plural incumbents)

1. The current holder of an office, such as ecclesiastical benefice or an elected office.
   • 2012, The Economist, October 6, 2012 issue, The first presidential debate: Back in the centre, back in the game

     Mr Obama’s problems were partly structural. An incumbent must defend the realities and compromises of government, while a challenger is freer to promise the earth, details to follow. Mr Obama’s odd solution was to play both incumbent and challenger, jumping from a defence of his record to indignation at such ills as over-crowded classrooms and tax breaks for big oil companies.

2. (business) A holder of a position as supplier to a market or market segment that allows the holder to earn above-normal profits.
   • 2012, The Economist, September 29 2012 issue, Schumpeter: Fixing the capitalist machine

     American capitalism is becoming like its European cousin: established firms with the scale and scope to deal with a growing thicket of regulations are doing well, but new companies are withering on the vine or selling themselves to incumbents.

Translations

See also

• incumbent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Verb

incumbent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of incumb?