Occupier (okupier)

1. One who occupies or takes po e ion, as of ownerle land.-2. One who holds or is in actual po e ion; an occupant: as, house owners and occupiers. No wrong was to be done to any existing occupiers. No right of property was to be violated. Froude , Cæsar, p. 191. 3t. One who uses, lays out, or employs that which is po e ed; a trader or dealer. All their causes, differences, variances, controuersies, quarrels, and complaints, within any our realmes, dom in occupier ions, & iurisdictions onely moued, and to be moued touching their marchandise, traffikes, and occupiers aforesaid. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 269. Mercury, the master of merchants and occupiers . Holland , tr. of Plutarch's Morals, p. 692. ( Encyc . Dict.) 4t. One who follows a calling, employment, or occupation: with of : as, an occupier of the sea. This manner and fashion of yearly changing and renewing the occupiers of husbandry, it be solemn and custom ably used, to the intent that no man shall be constrained against his will to continue long in that hard and sharp kind of life. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 1. Thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occu piers of thy merchandise, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. Ezek. xxvii. 27. occupy (ok'u-pi), v.; pret. and pp. occupied, ppr. occupying. [ Ther-for this doctrine to thee I rede thou take, To ocupy and vse bot he by dey and nyght. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 57. Me angers at Arthure, and att his hathelle bierns, That thus in his errour ocupyes the is rewmes, And owtrayes the emperour, his erthely lorde. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1662. By constantly occupying the same individual spot, the fruits of the earth were consumed and its spontaneous produce destroyed, without any provision for future supply or succe ion. Black stone, Com., II. i. The same commanders who had made the abortive at tempt upon Charleston descended upon Rhode Island, Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., xiv. and occupied it without resistance. 2. To take up, as room or space, or attention, interest, etc.; cover or fill; engro : as, to oc cupy too much space; to occupy the time with reading; to occupy the attention. And all thi lims on ilka side Witht sorows sall be ocupide . Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 64. The metropolis occupies a space equal to about three square miles. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 5. Whilst the abstract question occupies your intellect, Nature brings it in the concrete to be solved by your hands. Emerson, Nature, p. 91. Mr. Long's mind was occupied - was perplexed. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 293. 3. To hold, as an office; fill. That at euery avoydaunce ther be the seid office yeven to another of the same cite, so he be a citezen and occupie it his owne persone. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 399. Least qualified in honour, learning, worth, To occupy a sacred, awful post. Cowper, Tirocinium, 1. 414. 41. To take up and follow as a busine or employment; be employed about; ply. That non Bochour, ner non other persone, to his vse, occupie cokes crafte withyn the liberte of the seid cite. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 405. All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. Ezek. xxvii. 9. Men who had all their lives " occupied the sea had never seen it more outrageous. Froude. 5. To employ; give occupation to; engage; busy: often used reflexively: as, to occupy one's self about something. Ich am ocupied eche day, haly day and other, With ydel tales atte nale and other-whyle in churches. Piers Plowman (C), viii. 18. My wonte is to be more willing to vse mine eares than to occupie my tonge. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 19. O blest seclusion from a jarring world, Which he, thus occupied , enjoys!. 6t. To use; make use of. Cowper , Task, iii. 676. No more shulde a scoler forget then truly What he at scole shulde nede to occиру . Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 339. How moc he money is redy for me, if I haue nede of any to occupy ? Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, ii. 9. The good man shall never perceive the fraud till he cometh to the occupying of the corn. Latimer , Misc. Sel. And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied , then shall I be weak, and be as another man. Judges xvi. 11. 7t. To po e ; enjoy (with an obscene double meaning). These villains will make the word as odious as the word occupy , which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 161. =Syn. 1-3. Hold, Own, etc. See po e . II. in trans. 11. To be in po e ion or occupation; hold po e ion; be an occupant; have po e ion and use. 4074 What man, brothir or sustyr, but if he be any officere, entrith in to the Chambyr ther the ale is in wythowt ly cence of the officers that occupye therin, he schal payen j. lib. wax. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 280. 2. To trade; traffic; carry on busine . If they wil trauel or occupie within your dominions, the same march ants with their marchandises in al your lordship may freely. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 258. And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. Luke xix. 13. occur (o-ker'), v.; pret. and pp. occurred, ppr. occurring. [= OF. occurrer, occurrir = Sp. ocurrir = Pg. occorrer = It. occorrere, We must, as much as in us lies, occur and help their peculiar infirmities. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 649. II. in trans. 11. To run together; meet; clash. All bodies are observed to have always.. a determipulse, and their inward principle of gravitation, and the nate motion according to the degrees of their external imresistance of the bodies they occur with. Bentley, Works, III. 100. IMG:content-1612.png:[blocks in formation] Though nothing have occurred to kindle strife. Cowper , Epistle to Joseph Hill. 4. To strike the mind: with to. Whether they did not find their minds filled, and their affections strangely raised, by the images which there oc curred to them. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. i. There doth not occurre to me, at this present, any use Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 401. therof, for profit. There occurred to me no mode of accounting for Priscilla's behavior. Hawthorne , Blithe dale Romance, v. 5. Eccles ., to coincide in time, so as to interfere each with the celebration of the other: as, two holy days occur. One of the days so occurring may be a Sunday, or a movable feast, the other being an immovable feast. 6t. To refer: with to . Before I begin that, I must occur to one specious objection both against this proposition and the past part of my discourse. Bentley, Works, III. 13. =Syn. 3. To come to pa , come about, fall out. occurrence (o-kur'ens), n . [= F. occurrence = Sp . ocurrencia = Pg. occur ren cia = It. occor renza , occur entia , L. occurren ( t- ) s , occurrent: see occurrent .] 1. The act of occurring; occasional presentation. Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new. Watts. 2. An incident or accidental event; that which happens without being designed or expected; an event; a happening: as, an unusual occur rence; such occurrences are not uncommon. Omit All the occurrences , whatever chanced, Till Harry's back-return again to France. Shak., Hen. V., v., Prol., 1. 40. Touching the domestic Occurrences , the Gentleman who is Bearer hereof is more capable to give you Account by Discourse than I can in Paper. Howell , Letters, I. iv. 15. 3. Happenings collectively; course of events. [Rare.] All the occurrence of my fortune since Hath been between this lady and this lord. Shak., T. N., v. 1. 264. 4. Eccles., the coincidence of two or more festivals on the same day. See occur, v. i., 5, and concurrence, n., 4. =Syn. 2. Incident, Circumstance, etc. (see event ); Occasion, Emergency, etc. (see exigency ). occurrentt (o-kur'ent), a. and n. [= F. occur rent = Sp. ocurrente = Pg. occur rente = It. occorrente, After gifts of education there follow general abilities to work things above nature, grace to cure men of bodily diseases, supplies against occurrent defects and imped i Hooker , Eccles. Polity, v. 78. ments. II. n. 1. One who comes to meet or comes against another; especially, an antagonist; an adversary. ocean By all men he was willed to seek out Kalander, a great. gentleman of that country, who would soonest satisfy him of all occurrents . Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, v. The weak part of their occurrents , by which they may a ail and conquer the sooner. Holland . 2. Incident; anything that happens; happening; event; occurrence. I do prophesy the election lights On Fort in bras: he has my dying voice; So tell him, with the occurrents , more and le . Shak, Hamlet, v. 2. 368. These are strange occurrents , brother, but pretty and pathetical. Chapman, Widow's Tears, iii. 1. You shall hear Occurrents from all corners of the world. Mas singer, City Madam, ii. 1.