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occasioning


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Occasion  \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. 




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