2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Occupy \Oc"cu*py\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Occupied}; p. pr & vb
n. {Occupying}.] [OE. occupien, F. occuper, fr.L. occupare;
ob (see {Ob-}) + a word akin to capere to take See
{Capacious}.]
1. To take or hold possession of to hold or keep for use to
possess.
Woe occupieth the fine [/end] of our gladness.
--Chaucer.
The better apartments were already occupied. --W.
Irving.
2. To hold or fill, the dimensions of to take up the room
or space of to cover or fill; as the camp occupies five
acres of ground. --Sir J. Herschel.
3. To possess or use the time or capacity of to engage the
service of to employ; to busy.
An archbishop may have cause to occupy more
chaplains than six --Eng. Statute
(Hen. VIII. )
They occupied themselves about the Sabbath. --2
Macc. viii.
27.
4. To do business in to busy one's self with [Obs.]
All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were
in thee to occupy the merchandise. --Ezek. xxvii.
9.
Not able to occupy their old crafts. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
5. To use to expend; to make use of [Obs.]
All the gold that was occupied for the work --Ex.
xxxviii 24.
They occupy not money themselves. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
6. To have sexual intercourse with [Obs.] --Nares.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
occupied
adj 1: held or filled or in use "she keeps her time well
occupied"; "the wc is occupied" [ant: {unoccupied}]
2: seized and controlled as by military invasion; "the occupied
countries of Europe" [ant: {unoccupied}]
3: resided in having tenants; "not all the occupied (or
tenanted) apartments were well kept up" [syn: {tenanted}]
4: having ones attention or mind or energy engaged; "she keeps
herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply
engaged in conversation" [syn: {engaged}]
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