preoccupate
English
Alternative forms
- præoccupate (archaic)
Etymology
Borrowed from past participle stem of Latin praeoccupare, from prae- (“pre-”) + occupare (“occupy”); equivalent to pre- + occupate. Doublet of preoccupy.
Verb
preoccupate (third-person singular simple present preoccupates, present participle preoccupating, simple past and past participle preoccupated)
- (obsolete) To influence, to occupy (the mind) in advance; to be preoccupied with.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.40:
- the mad and fond curiositie of our nature, ammusing it selfe to preoccupate future things, as if it had not enough to doe to digest the present.
- (obsolete) To meet in advance; to forestall, pre-empt.
Italian
Verb
preoccupate
- inflection of preoccupare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
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