Word Meanings - OCCASIONATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To occasion. The lowest may occasionate much ill. Dr. H. More.

OCCASIONALISM
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.
OCCASIONABLE
Capable of being occasioned or caused. Barrow.
OCCASIONALLY
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.
OCCASIONAL
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
OCCASIONER
One who, or that which, occasions, causes, or produces. Bp. Sanderson.
OCCASIONALITY
Quality or state of being occasional; occasional occurrence.
OCCASION
to fall down; ob + cadere to fall. See Chance, and cf. 1. A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident. The unlooked-for incidents of family history, and its hidden excitements, and
OCCASIONATE
To occasion. The lowest may occasionate much ill. Dr. H. More.
SEMIOCCASIONALLY
Once in a while; on rare occasions.