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OccasionOccasion Oc*ca"sion ([o^]k*k[=a]"zh[u^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Occasioned (-zh[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Occasioning.]
[Cf.F. occasionner.]
To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to
occasion anxiety. --South.
If we inquire what it is that occasions men to make
several combinations of simple ideas into distinct
modes. --Locke. Occasionable
Occasionable Oc*ca"sion*a*ble, a.
Capable of being occasioned or caused. --Barrow.
OccasionalOccasional Oc*ca"sion*al, a. [Cf.F. occasionnel.]
1. 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.
The . . . occasional writing of the present times.
--Bagehot.
2. Produced by accident; as, the occasional origin of a
thing. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
Occasional cause (Metaph.), some circumstance preceding an
effect which, without being the real cause, becomes the
occasion of the action of the efficient cause; thus, the
act of touching gunpowder with fire is the occasional, but
not the efficient, cause of an explosion. Occasional causeOccasional Oc*ca"sion*al, a. [Cf.F. occasionnel.]
1. 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.
The . . . occasional writing of the present times.
--Bagehot.
2. Produced by accident; as, the occasional origin of a
thing. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
Occasional cause (Metaph.), some circumstance preceding an
effect which, without being the real cause, becomes the
occasion of the action of the efficient cause; thus, the
act of touching gunpowder with fire is the occasional, but
not the efficient, cause of an explosion. Occasionalism
Occasionalism Oc*ca"sion*al*ism, n. (Metaph.)
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.
Occasionality
Occasionality Oc*ca`sion*al"i*ty, n.
Quality or state of being occasional; occasional occurrence.
[R.]
Occasionally
Occasionally Oc*ca"sion*al*ly, adv.
In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as
convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly.
--Stewart.
The one, Wolsey, directly his subject by birth; the
other, his subject occasionally by his preferment.
--Fuller.
Occasionate
Occasionate Oc*ca"sion*ate, v. t.
To occasion. [Obs.]
The lowest may occasionate much ill. --Dr. H. More.
OccasionedOccasion Oc*ca"sion ([o^]k*k[=a]"zh[u^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Occasioned (-zh[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Occasioning.]
[Cf.F. occasionner.]
To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to
occasion anxiety. --South.
If we inquire what it is that occasions men to make
several combinations of simple ideas into distinct
modes. --Locke. Occasioner
Occasioner Oc*ca"sion*er, n.
One who, or that which, occasions, causes, or produces. --Bp.
Sanderson.
OccasioningOccasion Oc*ca"sion ([o^]k*k[=a]"zh[u^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Occasioned (-zh[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Occasioning.]
[Cf.F. occasionner.]
To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to
occasion anxiety. --South.
If we inquire what it is that occasions men to make
several combinations of simple ideas into distinct
modes. --Locke. OccasiveOccasive Oc*ca"sive, a. [L. occasivus, fr. occasus a going
down, setting of the heavenly bodies, fr. occidere to fall or
down. See Occasion.]
Of or pertaining to the setting sun; falling; descending;
western. Semioccasionally
Semioccasionally Sem`i*oc*ca"sion*al*ly, adv.
Once in a while; on rare occasions. [Colloq. U. S.]
Water moccasinWater moccasin Wa"ter moc"ca*sin (Zo["o]l.)
A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus)
allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives
in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes.
Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.
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OCCA can
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Farrea occa is a
species of gl****
sponge in the
family Farreidae. "Fossilworks:
Farrea occa". Bowerbank, J.S. (1862). On the
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Physiology of...
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Murex occa, also
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Harrowed murex, is a
species of
large predatory sea snail, a
marine gastropod mollusk in the
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California Academy of
Sciences is a
research institute and
natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is
among the
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- The Orthodox-Catholic
Church of
America (
OCCA) is an
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Astronomy &
Geophysics (A&G) is a
scientific journal and
trade magazine published on
behalf of the
Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) by
Oxford University...
- Menon, A.G.K. (1999). "Check list -
fresh water fishes of India". Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Misc. Publ.,
Occas. Pap. (175): 366. ISBN 9788185874159. v t e...
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Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum,
designated the Hawaiʻi
State Museum of
Natural and
Cultural History, is a
museum of
history and
science in the historic...
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Dental Historian is the
official journal of The
Lindsay Society for the
History of Dentistry,
published twice a year and free to the society's members...
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David Starr Jordan and
Edwin Chapin Starks in 1904,
originally in the
genus Occa. It is a marine,
temperate water-dwelling fish
which is
known from the coast...
