Occupier
(Oc"cu*pi`er) n.
1. One who occupies, or has possession.
2. One who follows an employment; hence, a tradesman. [Obs.] "Merchants and occupiers." Holland.
The occupiers of thy merchandise.
Ezek. xxvii. 27. Occupy
(Oc"cu*py) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Occupied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Occupying ] [OE. occupien, F.
occuper, fr.L. occupare; ob (see Ob-) + a word akin to capere to take. See Capacious.]
1. To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
Woe occupieth the fine [/end] of our gladness.
Chaucer.
The better apartments were already occupied.
W. Irving. 2. To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies
five acres of ground. Sir J. Herschel.
3. To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.
An archbishop may have cause to occupy more chaplains than six.
Eng. Statute (Hen. VIII. )
They occupied themselves about the Sabbath.
2 Macc. viii. 27. 4. To do business in; to busy one's self with. [Obs.]
All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.
Ezek. xxvii. 9.
Not able to occupy their old crafts.
Robynson 5. To use; to expend; to make use of. [Obs.]
All the gold that was occupied for the work.
Ex. xxxviii. 24.
They occupy not money themselves.
Robynson 6. To have sexual intercourse with. [Obs.] Nares.
Occupy
(Oc"cu*py), v. i.
1. To hold possession; to be an occupant. "Occupy till I come." Luke xix. 13.
2. To follow business; to traffic.
Occur
(Oc*cur") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Occurred; p. pr. & vb. n. Occurring ] [L. occurrere, occursum;
ob (see Ob-) + currere to run. See Course.]
1. To meet; to clash. [Obs.]
The resistance of the bodies they occur with.
Bentley. 2. To go in order to meet; to make reply. [Obs.]
I must occur to one specious objection.
Bentley.
