Meanings
verbpræoccupate (third-person singular simple present præoccupates, present participle præoccupating, simple past and past participle præoccupated)
present singular third person præoccupates · participle present præoccupating · participle past præoccupated · past præoccupated
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of preoccupate.
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
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