Further Antedating of "Incent"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
>  Making the situation far more dire is that my OED colleagues can prove
> that "incent" has been in print at least since 1977.  After nearly

1963 M. L. Burstein _Money_ 782 (Questia)  Americans will be incented to
acquire lira balances.

Fred Shapiro


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