Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Incur

Incur , transitive verb

[Latin incurrere to run into or toward; pref. in- in + currere to run. See Current.]

1.
To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable or subject to; to bring down upon one's self; to encounter; to contract; as, to incur debt, danger, displeasure, penalty, responsibility, etc.
I know not what I shall incur to pass it, Having no warrant. — Shakespeare
2.
To render liable or subject to; to occasion. [Obsolete]
Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life. — Chapman

Incur , intransitive verb

To pass; to enter. [Obsolete]
Light is discerned by itself because by itself it incurs into the eye. — South