OCCA'SION, noun s as z. [Latin occasio, from oceido, to fall; ob and cado.]
1. Properly, a falling, happening or coming to; an occurrence, casualty, incident; something distinct from the ordinary course or regular orders of things.
2. Opportunity; convenience; favorable time, season or circumstances.
I'll take th' occasion which he give to bring him to his death.
Use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh. Galatians 5:13.
Sin taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me.
Romans 7:8.
3. Accidental cause; incident, event or fact giving rise to something else. What was the occasion of this custom?
Her beauty was the occasion of the war.
4. Incidental need; casual exigency; opportunity accompanied with need or demand. So we say, we have occasion for all our resources. We have frequent occasions for assisting each other.
The ancient canons were well fitted for the occasion of the church in its purer ages.
My occasions have found time to use them toward a supply of money.
OCCA'SION, verb transitive
1. To cause incidentally; to cause; to produce. The expectation of war occasions a depression in the price of stocks. Consumptions are often occasioned by colds. Indigestion occasions pain in the head. Heat occasions lassitude.
2. To influence; to cause.
If we inquire what it is that occasions men to make several combinations of simple ideas into distinct modes -
OCCA'SIONABLE, adjective s as z. That may be caused or occasioned. [Little used.]
OCCA'SIONAL, adjective s as z.
1. Incidental; casual; occurring at times, but not regular or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits. We make occasional remarks on the events of the age.
2. Produced by accident; as the occasional origin of a thing.
3. Produced or made on some special event; as an occasional discourse.
OCCA'SIONALLY, adverb s as z. According to incidental exigence; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly. He was occasionally present at our meetings. We have occasionally lent our aid.
OCCA'SIONED, participle passive s as z. Caused incidentally; caused; produced.
OCCA'SIONER, noun s as z. One that causes or produces, either incidentally or otherwise.
He was the occasioner of loss to his neighbor.
OCCA'SIONING, participle present tense s as z. Causing incidentally or otherwise.
OCCA'SIVE, adjective Falling; descending; western; pertaining to the setting sun.
Amplitude is ortive or occasive
OCCECA'TION, noun [Latin occaecatio; ob and caeco, to blind.]
The act of making blind. [Little used.]
OC'CIDENT, noun [Latin occidens, occido, to fall; ob and cade.]
The west; the western quarter of the hemisphere; so called from the decline or fall of the sun.
OCCIDENT'AL, adjective [Latin occidentalis.] Western; opposed to oriental; pertaining to the western quarter of the hemisphere, or to some part of the earth westward of the speaker or spectator; as occidental climates; occidental pearl; occidental gold.
OCCID'UOUS, adjective [Latin occido, occiduus.] Western. [Little used.]
OCCIP'ITAL, adjective [from Latin occiput, the back part of the heat; ob and caput.]
Pertaining to the back part of the head, or to the occiput.
OC'CIPUT, noun [Latin ob and caput, head.] The hinder part of the head, or that part of the skull which forms the hind part of the head.
OCCIS'ION, noun s as z. [Latin occisio, from occido, to kill; ob and caedo.]
A killing; the act of killing. [Not used.]
OCCLU'DE, verb transitive [Latin occludo; ob and cludo, claudo, to shut.]
To shut up; to close. [Little used.]
OCCLU'SE, adjective [Latin occlusus.] Shut; closed. [Little used.]
OCCLU'SION, noun s as z. [Latin occlusio.] a shutting up; a closing.
[This is an elegant word, though little used.]
OCCULT', adjective [Latin occultus, occulo; ob and celo, to conceal.]
Hidden from the eye or understanding; invisible; secret; unknown; undiscovered; undetected; as the occult qualities of matter.
The occult sciences are magic, necromancy, etc.
OCCULT lines, in geometry, are such as are drawn with the compasses or a pencil, and are scarcely visible.
OCCULTA'TION, noun [Latin occultatio.]
1. a hiding; also, the time a star or planet is hid from our sight, when eclipsed by the interposition of the body of a planet.
2. In astronomy, the hiding of a star or planet from our sight, by passing behind some other of the heavenly bodies.
OCCULT'ED, adjective Hid; secret. [Not used.]
OCCULT'NESS, noun the state of being concealed from view; secretness.
OC'CUPANCY, noun [Latin occupo, to take or seize; ob and capio, to seize.]
1. The act of taking possession.
2. In law, the taking possession of a thing not belonging to any person. the person who first takes possession of land is said to have or hold it by right of occupancy
Occupancy gave the original right to the property in the substance of the earth itself.
OC'CUPANT, noun
1. He that occupies or takes possession; he that has possession.
2. In law, one that first takes possession of that which has no legal owner. The right of property, either in wild beasts and fowls, or in land belonging to no person, vests in the first occupant The property in these cases follows the possession.
OC'CUPATE, verb transitive [Latin occupo.] To hold; to possess; to take up. [Not used.]
OCCUPA'TION, noun [Latin occupatio.]
1. The act of taking possession.
2. Possession; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as lands in the occupation of AB.
3. That which engages the time and attention; employment; business. He devotes to study all the time that his other occupations will permit.
4. The principal business of one's life; vocation; calling; trade; the business which a man follows to procure a living or obtain wealth. Agriculture, manufactures and commerce furnish the most general occupations of life. Painting, statuary, music, are agreeable occupations. Men not engaged in some useful occupation commonly fall into vicious courses.
OC'CUPIER, noun
1. One that occupies or takes possession.
2. One who holds possession.
3. One who follows an employment. Ezekiel 27:27.
OC'CUPY, verb transitive [Latin occupo; ob and capio, to seize or take.]
1. To take possession. The person who first occupies land which has no owner, has the right of property.
2. To keep in possession; to possess; to hold or keep for use. The tenant occupies a farm under a lease of twenty one years. A lodger occupies an apartment; a man occupies the chair in which he sits.
3. To take up; to possess; to cover or fill. The camp occupies five acres of ground. Air may be so rarefied as to occupy a vast space. The writing occupies a sheet of paper, or it occupies five lines only.
4. To employ; to use.
The archbishop may have occasion to occupy more chaplains than six.
5. To employ; to busy one's self. Every man should be occupied, or should occupy himself, in some useful labor.
6. To follow, as business.
All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. Ezekiel 27:9.
7. To use; to expend.
All the gold that was occupied for the work - Exodus 38:1. [Not now in use.]
OC'CUPY, verb intransitive To follow business; to negotiate.
Occupy till I come. Luke 19:13.
OC'CUPYING, participle present tense Taking or keeping possession; employing.
OCCUR', verb intransitive [Latin occurro; ob and curro, to run.]
1. Primarily, to meet; to strike against; to clash; and so used by Bentley, but this application is obsolete.
2. To meet or come to the mind; to be presented to the mind, imagination or memory. We say, no better plan occurs to me or to my mind; it does not occur to my recollection; the thought did not occur to me.
There doth not occur to me any use of this experiment for profit.
3. To appear; to meet the eye; to be found here and there. This word occurs in twenty places in the Scriptures; the other word does not occur in a single place; it does not occur in the sense suggested.
4. To oppose; to obviate. [Not used.]
OCCUR'RENCE, noun
1. Literally, a coming or happening; hence, any incident or accidental event; that which happens without being designed or expected; any single event. We speak of an unusual occurrence or of the ordinary occurrences of life.
2. Occasional presentation.
Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new.
OCCUR'RENT, noun Incident; any thing that happens. obsolete
OCCUR'SION, noun [Latin occursio, from occurro, to meet.] A meeting of bodies; a clash.
OCEAN, noun o'shun. [Latin oceanus; Gr.; Heb. to encompass, whence a circle. This is probably an error. The word seems to have for its origin greatness or extent.]
1. The vast body of water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe, called also the sea, or great sea. It is customary to speak of the ocean as if divided into three parts, the Atlantic ocean the Pacific ocean and the Indian ocean; but the ocean is one mass or body, partially separated by the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa on one side, and by America on the other.
2. An immense expanse; as the boundless ocean of eternity; oceans of duration and space.
OCEAN, adjective o'shun. Pertaining to the main or great sea; as the ocean wave; ocean stream.
OCEANIC, adjective oshean'ic. Pertaining to the ocean.
O'CELLATED, adjective [Latin ocellatus, from ocellus, a little eye.]
1. Resembling an eye.
2. Formed with the figues of little eyes.
O'CELOT, noun the Mexican panther.
O'CHER, noun [Latin ochra; Gr. from pale.]
A variety of clay deeply colored by the oxyd of iron. Its most common colors are red, yellow and brown. It is used as a pigment.
O'CHEROUS, adjective
1. Consisting of ocher; as ocherous matter.
2. Resembling ocher; as an ocherous color.
OCH'IMY, noun [corrupted from alchimy.] A mixed base metal.
OCHLOC'RACY, noun [Gr. the people or a multitude, and to govern.]
A form of government in which the multitude or common people rule.
O'CHREY, adjective Partaking of ocher. [Not used.]
OCH'ROITS, noun Cerite.
O'CRA, noun A viscous vegetable substance in the West Indies, used in soups, etc.
It is obtained by boiling the green pods of the Hibiscus esculentus. also, the name of the plant itself.
OC'TACHORD, noun an instrument or system of eight sounds.
OC'TAGON, noun [Gr. eight and angle.]
1. In geometry, a figure of eight sides and eight angles. When the sides and angles are equal, it is a regular octagon which may be inscribed in a circle.
2. In fortification, a place with eight bastions.
OCTAG'ONAL, adjective Having eight sides and eight angles.
OCTAHE'DRAL, adjective [See octahedron.] Having eight equal sides.
OCTAHE'DRITE, noun Pyramidical ore of titanium.
OCTAHE'DRON, noun [Gr. eight and a base.]
In geometry, a solid contained by eight equal and equilateral triangles. it is one of the five regular bodies.
OCTAN'DER, noun [Gr. eight, and a male.] In botany, a plant having eight stamens.
OCTAN'DRIAN, noun Having eight stamens.
OCTAN'GULAR, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and angular.] Having eight angles.
OC'TANT, noun [Latin octans, an eighth part, from octo, eight.]
In astronomy, that aspect of two planets in which they are distant from each other the eighth part of a circle or 45 degrees.
OC'TAVE, adjective [infra.] Denoting eight.
OC'TAVE, noun [Latin octavus, eighth.]
1. The eighth day after a festival.
2. Eight days together after a festival.
3. In music, an eighth, or an interval of seven degrees or twelve semitones. The octave is the most perfect of the chords, consisting of six full tones and two semitones major. It contains the whole diatonic scale.
OCTA'VO, noun [Latin octavus, eighth.] A book in which a sheet is folded into eight leaves. The word is used as a noun or an adjective. We say, an octavo or an octavo volume. The true phrase is, a book in octavo
OCTEN'NIAL, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and annus, year.]
1. Happening every eighth year.
2. Lasting eight years.
OC'TILE, noun The same as octant, supra.
OCTO'BER, noun [Latin from octo, eighth; the eighth month of the primitive Roman year which began in march.]
The tenth month of the year in our calendar, which follows that of Numa and Julius Caesar.
OCTODEC'IMAL, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and decem, ten.]
In crystallography, designating a crystal whose prisms, or the middle part, has eight faces, and the two summits together ten faces.
OCTODEN'TATE, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and dentatus, toothed.] Having eight teeth.
OC'TOFID, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and findo, to cleave.]
In botany, cleft or separated into eight segments; as a calyx.
OC'TOGENARY, adjective [Latin octogenarius, from octogeni, eighty.] Of eighty years of age.
OC'TOGENARY, noun A person eighty years of age.
OCTOLOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and locus, place.] In botany, having eight cells for seeds.
OC'TONARY, adjective [Latin octonarius.] Belonging to the number eight.
OCTONOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and oculus, eye.] Having eight eyes.
OCTOPET'ALOUS, adjective [Gr. eight and a petal.] Having eight petals or flower-leaves.
OCTORA'DIATED, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and radius, ray.] Having eight rays.
OCTOSPERM'OUS, adjective [Gr. eight, and seed.] Containing eight seeds.
OC'TOSTYLE, noun [Gr. eight, and style.] In ancient architecture, the face of an edifice adorned with eight columns, or a range of eight columns.
OCTOSYL'LABLE, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and syllaba, syllable.] Consisting of eight syllables.
OC'TUPLE, adjective [Latin octuplus; octo, eight, and plico, to fold.] Eight-fold.
OC'ULAR, adjective [Latin ocularius, from oculus, eye.]
Depending on the eye; known by the eye; received by actual sight; as ocular proof; ocular demonstration or evidence.
OC'ULARLY, adverb By the eye, sight or actual view.
OC'ULATE, adjective [Latin oculatus.] Furnished with eyes; knowing by the eye.
OC'ULIFORM, adjective [Latin oculus, eye, and forma, form.]
In the form of an eye; resembling the eye in form; as an oculiform pebble.
OC'ULIST, noun [from Latin oculus, the eye.] One skilled in diseases of the eyes, or one who professes to cure them.
Oculus beli, a semi-pellucid gem, a variety of agate of a grayish white color, variegated with yellow, and with a black central nucleus. Its variegations resemble the pupil and iris of the eye.
Oculus cati, cat's eye or asteria, a beautiful gem approaching the nature of the opal, having a bright color which seems to be lodged deep in the stone, and which shifts as it is moved in various directions. It is larger than a pea, and generally of a semi-circular form, naturally smooth. It is found in the East and West Indies, and in Europe.
Oculus mundi, otherwise called hydrophane and lapis mutabilis, a precious stone of an opake whitish brown color, but becoming transparent by infusion in an aqueous fluid, and resuming its opacity when dry. It is found in beds over the opals in Hungary, Silesia and Saxony, and over the chalcedonies and agates in Iceland.