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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Occur \Oc*cur"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Occurred}; p. pr & vb n.
{Occurring}.] [L. occurrere occursum ob (see {Ob-}) +
currere to run. See {Course}.]
1. To meet to clash. [Obs.]
The resistance of the bodies they occur with
--Bentley.
2. To go in order to meet to make reply. [Obs.]
I must occur to one specious objection. --Bentley.
3. To meet one's eye; to be found or met with to present
itself to offer; to appear; to happen; to take place as
I will write if opportunity occurs.
In Scripture, though the word heir occur, yet there
is no such thing as ``heir'' in our author's sense
--Locke.
4. To meet or come to the mind; to suggest itself to be
presented to the imagination or memory.
There doth not occur to me any use of this
experiment for profit. --Bacon.
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