To come across Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman.
Definitions
  1. to meet; to find, esp. by chance or suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention of those wars." E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever came across." H. R. Heweis.
  2. to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman.

Webster 1913