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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
preoccupate .
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A covetous person, who hath preoccupated all his senses, filled all his capacities with the delight of gathering, wonders how any man can have any taste of any pleasure in any openness or liberality; so also in bodily pains, in a fit of the stone, the patient wonders why any man should call the gout a pain; and he that hath felt neither, but the toothache, is as much afraid of a fit of that as either of the other of either of the other.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
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