Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A meeting or coming together; collision or clash.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A meeting; a clash; a collision.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
meeting or striking together; aclash orcollision .
Etymologies
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Latin occursio. See occur.
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Examples
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Fire some of the dissipated Parts may, by their various occursion occasion'd by the heat, be brought to stick together so closely as to constitute Corpuscles too heavy for the Fire to carry away; the aggregate of which Corpuscles is wont to be call'd Ashes or Earrh
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