Occamite (okamit)

Same as Occamist. occamył (ok'a-mi), n. [Also ochimy, ochymy, etc.; a corruption of alchemy.] A compound metal simulating silver. See alchemy, 3. Wright. Pilchards. which are but counter fets to the red her ring, as copper to gold, or ockamie to silver. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (Harl. Misc., VI. 165). The ten shillings, this thimble, and an occamy spoon from some other unknown poor sinner, are all the atonement which is made for the body of sin in London and Westminster. Steele, Guardian, No. 26. occasion (o-kāʼzhon), n. [ This occasion, and the sickne of our minister and people, put us all out of order this day. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 10. 2. A special occurrence or happening; a particular time or season, especially one marked by some particular occurrence or juncture of circumstances; instance; time; season. I shall upon this occasion go so far back as to speak briefly of my first going to Sea. Dampier , Voyages, II. ii. 2. His [Hastings's style]...was sometimes, though not often, turgid, and, on one or two occasions , even bombastic. Macaulay , Warren Hastings. 3. An event which affords a person a reason or motive for doing something or seeking some thing to be done at a particular time, whether he desires it should be done or not; hence, an opportunity for bringing about a desired result; also, a need; an exigency. (a) Used relatively. You embrace th' occasion to depart. Shak ., M. of V., i. 1. We have perpetual occasion of each others' a istance. Swift . When a man's circumstances are such that he has no occasion to borrow, he finds numbers willing to lend him. Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 3. The election of Mr. Lincoln, which it was clearly in their [the Southern leaders'] power to prevent had they wished, was the occasion merely, and not the cause, of their revolt. Lowell , Study Windows, p. 172. tuberosa, Used absolutely, though referring to a particular ac OC-. An a imilated form of ob- before c. oca (ō'kä), n. [S. Amer.] One of two plants of the genus Oxalis, O. crenata and O. tuberosa, found in western South America. They are there cultivated for their potato-like tubers, which, however, have proved insipid and of small size in European experiments. The acid leafstalks of O. crenata are also used in Peru.