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onset (n.)
1530s, "attack, assault," from
on
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set
(n.); compare verbal phrase
to set (something) on (someone)
. Weaker sense of "beginning, start" first recorded 1560s. Figurative use in reference to a calamity, disease, etc. is from 1580s.
