Word Meanings - OCCUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To meet; to clash. The resistance of the bodies they occur with. Bentley. 2. To go in order to meet; to make reply. 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;

Additional info about word: OCCUR

1. To meet; to clash. The resistance of the bodies they occur with. Bentley. 2. To go in order to meet; to make reply. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OCCUR)

• Befall
• Happen
• occur
• betide
• fall
• supervene
• bechance
• Supervene
• accrue
• succeed

Related words: (words related to OCCUR)

• SUCCEEDANT
  Succeeding one another; following.
• SUCCEDANE
  A succedaneum.
• SUCCESS
  1. Act of succeeding; succession. Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. Spenser. 2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
• SUCCESSLESS
  Having no success. Successless all her soft caresses prove. Pope. -- Suc*cess"less*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"less*ness, n.
• ACCRUE
  Etym: 1. To increase; to augment. And though power failed, her courage did accrue. Spenser. 2. To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money
• SUCCEEDER
  A successor. Shak. Tennyson.
• OCCURRENT
  1. One who meets; hence, an adversary. Holland. 2. Anything that happens; an occurrence. These we must meet with in obvious occurrents of the world. Sir T. Browne.
• SUCCESSION
  1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to
• SUCCESSIVELY
  In a successive manner. The whiteness, at length, changed successively into blue, indigo, and violet. Sir I. Newton.
• OCCUR
  1. To meet; to clash. The resistance of the bodies they occur with. Bentley. 2. To go in order to meet; to make reply. 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;
• BECHANCE
  By chance; by accident. Grafton.
• ACCRUER
  The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer.
• SUCCESSFUL
  Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. Welcome,
• SUCCEED
  1. To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to. If the father left only daughters, they
• SUCCESSIONIST
  A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially , one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.
• SUCCEEDING
  The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence. Shak.
• SUCCESSIVE
  1. Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes
• OCCURSE
  See BENTLEY
• SUCCESSARY
  Succession. My peculiar honors, not derived From successary, but purchased with my blood. Beau. & Fl.
• BETIDE
  To come to pass; to happen; to occur. A salve for any sore that may betide. Shak. Note: Shakespeare has used it with of. "What would betide of me "
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• BEHAPPEN
  To happen to.
• BEFALL
  To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak.
• UNSUCCESSFUL
  Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ness, n.
• INSUCCESS
  Want of success. Feltham.