OPage 19
- English Word Occasion Definition An occurrence or condition of affairs which brings with it some unlooked-for event; that which incidentally brings to pass an event, without being its efficient cause or sufficient reason; accidental or incidental cause.
- English Word Occasion Definition Need; exigency; requirement; necessity; as, I have no occasion for firearms.
- English Word Occasion Definition A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
- English Word Occasion Definition To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.
- English Word Occasionable Definition Capable of being occasioned or caused.
- English Word Occasional Definition Of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions; occuring at times, but not constant, regular, or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits; casual; incidental; as, occasional remarks, or efforts.
- English Word Occasional Definition Produced by accident; as, the occasional origin of a thing.
- English Word Occasionalism Definition The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
- English Word Occasionality Definition Quality or state of being occasional; occasional occurrence.
- English Word Occasionally Definition In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly.
- English Word Occasionate Definition To occasion.
- English Word Occasioned Definition of Occasion
- English Word Occasioner Definition One who, or that which, occasions, causes, or produces.
- English Word Occasioning Definition of Occasion
- English Word Occasive Definition Of or pertaining to the setting sun; falling; descending; western.
- English Word Occecation Definition The act of making blind, or the state of being blind.
- English Word Occident Definition The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west; -- opposed to orient. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere.
- English Word Occidental Definition Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.
- English Word Occidental Definition Possessing inferior hardness, brilliancy, or beauty; -- used of inferior precious stones and gems, because those found in the Orient are generally superior.
- English Word Occidentals Definition Western Christians of the Latin rite. See Orientals.
- English Word Occiduous Definition Western; occidental.
- English Word Occipita Definition of Occiput
- English Word Occipital Definition Of or pertaining to the occiput, or back part of the head, or to the occipital bone.
- English Word Occipital Definition The occipital bone.
- English Word Occipito- Definition A combining form denoting relation to, or situation near, the occiput; as, occipito-axial; occipito-mastoid.
- English Word Occipitoaxial Definition Of or pertaining to the occipital bone and second vertebra, or axis.
- English Word Occiput Definition The back, or posterior, part of the head or skull; the region of the occipital bone.
- English Word Occiput Definition A plate which forms the back part of the head of insects.
- English Word Occiputs Definition of Occiput
- English Word Occision Definition A killing; the act of killing.