Obs. [OE. tócyme, f. TO adv. + COME sb.1, rendering L. adventus: cf. OHG. zôquumi, zôquemi, ‘conventus.’]

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  1.  Arrival, advent, coming.

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c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xxxii. 212. For ðæm tocyme Dryhtnes Hælendan Cristes.

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971.  Blickl. Hom., 35. Foran to þon tocyme þæs eʓeslican domes dæʓes.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Hom., I. 404. Storc and swalewe heoldon ðone timan heora to-cymes.

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a. 1175.  Cott. Hom., 227. Christes to-cyme to þis life.

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c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 93. Þurh þes halie gastes tocume. Ibid., 153. For to bodien his tokume.

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c. 1325.  Metr. Hom., 8. Cristes to com mad endinge Of al our soru.

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c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 5576 (Petyt MS.). Mirth þei mad at þer tocome.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, cxxiv. 4. He prayes þat he wate is to cum.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, XI. xii. 22. The contyr or first tocome … Full ardent wolx.

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  2.  Means of access. Sc. rare.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, IX. ii. 59. Gyf ony entre or tocom espy He myght, fortill assaill the cite by.

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