preoccupate
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- præoccupate (archaic)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from past participle stem of Latin praeoccupare, from prae- (“pre-”) + occupare (“occupy”); equivalent to pre- + occupate. Doublet of preoccupy.
Verb edit
preoccupate (third-person singular simple present preoccupates, present participle preoccupating, simple past and past participle preoccupated)
- (obsolete) To influence, to occupy (the mind) in advance; to be preoccupied with.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.40:
- the mad and fond curiositie of our nature, ammusing it selfe to preoccupate future things, as if it had not enough to doe to digest the present.
- (obsolete) To meet in advance; to forestall, pre-empt.
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
preoccupate
Participle edit
preoccupate f pl
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
preoccupate
- inflection of preoccupare: