occupier 
Ions, & iurisdictions onely moued, and to be moued touch- 
-' -*"*>. 
4074 
What man, brothir or sustyr, but if he be any offlcere, 
ocean 
By all men he was willed to seek out Kalander, a great 
ions, & inrisdiction S onelymoued,andtobemouedtouch. What man too, h,r or sustyr, ^ /? -yihowt ly'- gen leman of that country;who would soonest satisfy him 
ing their nmrchandise, tk ami Aforesaid ***** $Su5? JX$ th he schal paye'n gf all octurrents. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, v. 
lib wax English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 280. Th ok r,art of their oeeMrrent*. bv which they may 
iter.of merchants and occupiers. 
2. To trade ; traffic ; carry on business. 
The weak part of their occurrents, by which they may 
assail and conquer the sooner. Holland. 
; anything that happens ; happen- 
ship 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. 
prophesy the election lights 
On Fortinbras : he has my dying voice ; 
So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less. 
Shak , Hamlet, v. 2. 368. 
Mercury, the i 
Holland, tr. of 
4f. One who _, 
occupation : with of: as, an occupier of the sea. 
This manner and fashion of yearly changing and renew- 
ing the occupiersof husbandry, . . . it be solemn and cus- 
tomably used, to the intent that no man shall be constrain- 
ed against his will to continue long in that hard and sharp 
kind of life. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), n. 1. 
Thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occu- .,. u _ __. . 
piers of thy merchandise, . . . shall fall into the midst of OCTOT ,j,. _ p g . occorrer = It. OCCOrrere, <. U OC- Occurrents from all corners of the world, 
the seas in the day of thy ruin. Currer6j ru n, go or come up to, meet, go against, Hassinger, City Madam, ii. 1. 
occupy (ok'u-pi), v.; pret. and pp. occupied, ppr. < o ^ before, + currere, run: see current^. Ct. occurs et (o-kers'), w. [< L. occursus, a meeting, 
occupying. ' [< ME. occupien, ocupyen, < OF. oc- fa cur ^ incur, recur. .] I.t trans. To run to, as a f a nj n g j n w jth, < occurrere, pp. occursus, meet, 
euper, F. occuper = Sp. ocupar = Pg. occupar = f or the purpose of assisting. [A Latinism.J occur: se e occur.} An occursion; a meeting. 
It. occupare, < L. occupare, take possession of, We must as much as in ug lieg <.. and help their pe- [Rare.] 
seize, occupy, take up, employ, < ob, to, on, T culiar infirmities. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 649. 
' . . *' % 1 -\ T _l H fTl 4-nlrn ., 
To run together; meet; 
occur (o-ker'), .; pret. and pp. occurred, ppr. Jh .trange ""ft**^^^. 
occurring. [= OF. occurrer, occurnr = bp. YOU shall hear 
capere, take: see capable.} I. trans. 1. To take 
possession of and retain or keep ; enter upon 
the possession and use of; hold and use; espe- 
nflrmities. 
intrans. 
If. 
It anything at unawares shall pass from us, a sudden ac- 
cident, occurse, or meeting, etc. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 256. 
a determi- occursiont (o-ker'shon), n. [< L. oecursio(n-), a 
v uu *v u ~ ~ All bodies are observed to have always . . . uov^>ji- W ww* *?< \- - -.../.. - _- 
cially, to take possession of (a place as a place nate motion according to the degrees of their external im- meeting, < occurrere, meet, occur : see occur. J A 
of residence, or in warfare a town or country) pulse, and their inward principle of gravitation, and the me eting or coming together; collision or clash, 
and become established in it. resistance of the bodies they <w- with. Glanville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, iv. 
Ther-for this doctrine to thee I rede thou take, ' ' ocean (o'shan), n. and a. [< ME.*omzn, occean, 
To ocupy and vse bothe by dey and nyght. 2. To strike the senses ; be found ; be met witn : occ i an . occyan,<. OF. ocean, oeian, occean, occian, 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 67. agj s i] ver often occurs native ; the statement oc- p oc an g p . oeeano = Pg. oceano = It. oceano 
Me angers at Arthure, and att his hathelle bierns, CMrs repeatedly. _' D oceaari = G. Sw. Dan. ocean, < L. oceanus, 
That thus in his errour ocupyes theis rewmes, ^ ^ ^^ ^^ fr?quent ^^ rf ^ the ^^ < Gr ^ Kav6(> orig . (in Homer) the 
""""- ;;-------" hi. erthelv lorde As for those Martyrs, . . . irequent mention tne ocean, <, trr. UKeavof, oiug. \iu .LLU tafj 
And owtrayes the ^^,^f ffifi L 1662 . doet h occurre in most of the ancient Ecclesiastical Histo- t stream supposed t ' o encompass the earth 
ly constantly occupying the same individual spot, the nan8 ' (also called by Homer aKeavof ffora//of, or poof), 
its of the earth were consumed and its spontaneous In ^J^^^'jj""^ ** ^jior's^ i'ens'e"'' y ^^Locke 'Ocean-stream' (Milton); also personified, Oce- 
NZre^Tthe'BSle.Tns! t^^utw^d serthritCntic^as^dis: 
By con: 
fruits of 
produce destroyed, without any provision for future sup- 
ply or succession. Blackstone, Com., II. i. 
what has occurred f 
2. To take up, as room or space, or attention, 
interest, etc.; cover or fill; engross: as, to oc- 
cupy too 
reading ; 
And all thi lims on ilka side 
Witht sorows sail 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, Na- 
ture 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. Baiter, New Timothy, p. 298. 
3. To hold, as an office ; fill. 
That at euery avoydaunce ther be the seid ofllce 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. 
4f. To take up and follow as a business or em- occurrence (o-kur'ens), n, 
ployment ; 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 reft exively : as, to occupy one's 
self about something. 
Ich am ocupied echo 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 ! 
Cowper, Task, iii. 676. 
6f. To use ; make use of. 
No more shulde a scoler forget then truly 
What he at scole shulde nede to occupy. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 339. 
How moche money is redy for me, if I haue nede of any 
to occupy? Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, ii. 9. 
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. L 
There doth not occurre to me, at this present, any use 
therof, for profit. Bacon, Nat. Hist, 401. 
There occurred to me no mode of accounting for Pris- 
cilla's behavior. Hawthorne, Blithedale 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 im- 
movable feast. 
6f. To refer: with to. 
Before I begin that, I must occur to one specious objec- 
tion both against this proposition and the past part of my 
discourse. Bentley, Works, IIL 13. 
=Syn. 3. To come to pass, come about> fall out. 
iccurrence (o-kur'ens), n. [= F. occurrence =. _ ^ 
Sp. ocurrencia = Pg. occurrencia = It. occor- of either the Atlantic, the Pacific, or the Indian ocean, 
renza, < ML. occurentia, L. occurren (t-)*. occur- since these all unite with the Antarctic ocean to torm one 
*.' ^*n 4 TV, ot f ,,^ir, CT - continuous area of water. Hence it would be more philo- 
sophical to call the vast area of water occupying the chief 
earth, and covers almost three fourths of its 
surface with a mean depth as nearly as can 
be estimated at the present time of less than 
12,500 feet. Physical geographers, following the lead 
of the Royal Geographical Society, generally divide the 
entire oceanic area into five distinct oceans, namely the 
Arctic, Antarctic, Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian ; but these 
divisions are largely artificial, the lines by which they are 
indicated being in no small part parallels and meridians. 
The Arctic and Antarctic oceans, according to this scheme, 
extend from the north and south poles respectively to the 
arctic and antarctic circles. The Atlantic extends be- 
tween the two polar circles, being limited on the east by 
the land-masses of Europe and Africa and by the merid- 
ian extending from Cape Agulhas to the antarctic circle, 
and on the west by the American land-mass and the me- 
ridian of Cape Horn. The Pacific has as its land-limits 
on the east the American coast, and on the west the Asi- 
atic land-mass, the Philippine Islands, New Guinea, and 
Australia; its imaginary limits are the meridians of Cape 
Horn and the South Cape of Tasmania prolonged to meet 
the antarctic circle. The Indian ocean extends south 
from the Asiatic mainland to the antarctic circle, its east- 
ern and western imaginary limits having been already 
given in denning those of the Pacific and Atlantic. Thus, 
as will be noticed, there are no natural limits on the south 
rent: 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. 
5Ao*., 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 fes- 
tivals on the same day. See occur, v. i., 5, and 
Tne good man shall never perceive the fraud till he concurrence, M.,4. =Syn. 2. Incident, Circumstance, etc. 
cometh to the occupying of the corn. Latimer, Misc. Sel. (see event) ; Occasion, Emergency, etc. (see exigency). 
And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new OCCUTTentt (o-kur'ent), a. and n. [= F. OCCUr- 
ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and rent = Sp. OCUrrente = Pg. OCCWrente = It. OC- 
corrente, < L. occurren(t-)s, ppr. of occurrere, 
occur : see occur.} I. a. That comes in the way ; 
be as another man. Judges xvi. 11. 
7t. To possess ; 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 possess. 
occurring; incidental. 
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 impedi- 
ments. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 78. 
part of the southern hemisphere the Southern ocean, as 
has been done by Herschel and Thomson, and to consider 
the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans as immense gulfs 
or prolongations toward the north of the still greater 
Southern ocean. The Pacific ocean was most generally 
designated by the older English navigators as the " South 
Sea," and this name is still current among the Germans. 
The Atlantic and Pacific are also generally divided into 
North and South Atlantic and North and South Pacific by 
the equatorial line. The smaller divisions of the ocean 
are, in the order of their respective magnitudes, seas, gulfs, 
bays, sounds, straits, coves, holes, and harbors (see each of 
these words). The mean depth of the ocean is probably not 
far from six times the mean elevation of the land above the 
ocean-level. The deepest soundings of the ocean, how- 
ever, give figures a little inferior in amount to those in- 
dicating the elevation of the very highest mountain-sum- 
mits. In several different parts of the ocean depths of over 
26 000 feet have been sounded, but nowhere as yet has a 
depth as great as 29,000 feet (the height of Gaurisankar) 
been reached. (See deep-sea sounding-machine, under deep- 
sea.) The oceanic currents are of great importance in their 
effect on climate. The principal surface current is the 
equatorial, due to the action of the trade-winds, by which 
the water is continually urged westward, but, being driven 
in its westerly course against the land-masses, it is deflect- 
ed by them, and forced to perform an immense gyration by 
which it returns into the general system far to the east- 
ward. Owing to the shape of theland-masses in the northern 
hemisphere, these modifications of the equatorial current 
are much more distinct and important than they are to 
the south of the equator. Two of the oceanic currents are 
especially interesting, the Gulf Stream of the Atlantic and 
the Kuroshiwo of the Pacific (see these terms). The surface 
temperature of the ocean varies greatly in the different 
latitudes and with the strength and direction of the surface 
currents, the Gulf Stream playing a most important part 
in ameliorating the climate of northwestern Europe by 
means of the heated surface water which it carries from 
the equatorial regions. Besides these surface currents, 
II. intrans. If. To be in possession or occu- II. n. 1. One who comes to meet or comes ^^-^~ i'slgenerallxchange of water always going 
pation ; hold possession ; be an occupant ; have against another ; especially, an antagonist ; an on in tn e depths of the ocean between the warmer equate- 
possession and use. 
adversary. 
depths 
rial and the colder polar waters, brought about by the dif- 
