præoccupate

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See also: praeoccupate

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præoccupate (third-person singular simple present præoccupates, present participle præoccupating, simple past and past participle præoccupated)

  1. Obsolete spelling of preoccupate.
    • 1812, Thomas Hobbes and Thucydides, The History of the Grecian War, book III, page 200:
      And hereupon he sent a part of his army presently forth to beset the ways with ambushment, and to præoccupate all places of strength, and prepared withal to encounter with the rest of his army.