præoccupate
See also: praeoccupate
English
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editpræoccupate (third-person singular simple present præoccupates, present participle præoccupating, simple past and past participle præoccupated)
- Obsolete spelling of preoccupate.
- 1812, Thomas Hobbes and Thucydides, The History of the Grecian War, book III, page 200:
- And hereupon he sent a part of his army presently forth to beset the ways with ambushment, and to præoccupate all places of strength, and prepared withal to encounter with the rest of his army.
- 1812, Thomas Hobbes and Thucydides, The History of the Grecian War, book III, page 200: