Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To take possession of; possess; occupy.
- To dwell.
- Occupied.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To occupy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
occupy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But unto all this knowledge de communi vinculo, of the concordances between the mind and the body, that part of inquiry is most necessary which considereth of the seats and domiciles which the several faculties of the mind do take and occupate in the organs of the body; which knowledge hath been attempted, and is controverted, and deserveth to be much better inquired.
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Thus have I made as it were a small globe of the intellectual world, as truly and faithfully as I could discover; with a note and description of those parts which seem to me not constantly occupate, or not well converted by the labour of man.
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Thus have I made as it were a small globe of the intellectual world, as truly and faithfully as I could discover; with a note and description of those parts which seem to me not constantly occupate, or not well converted by the labour of man.
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
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But unto all this knowledge de communi vinculo, of the concordances between the mind and the body, that part of inquiry is most necessary which considereth of the seats and domiciles which the several faculties of the mind do take and occupate in the organs of the body; which knowledge hath been attempted, and is controverted, and deserveth to be much better inquired.
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
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La nostra identità ed il nostro destino collettivo è connesso a tutto il resto del popolo palestinese nelle zone occupate dall'Israele nel 1967 e con il resto dei palestinesi dispersi con lo status di profughi.
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Hic vobis hanc terram donavit, afcen. dite, occupate eam, quemadmodum Jova Deus majprum veftrorum • vobis juffit ', nolite timere, aut confternari.
Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform] Dathe, Johann August, 1731-1791, ed 1791
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