OCCUR', verb intransitive [Latin occurro; ob and curro, to run.] 1. Primarily, to meet; to strike against; to clash; and so used by Bentley, but this application is obsolete. 2. To meet or come to the mind; to be presented to the mind, imagination or memory. We say, no better plan occurs to me or to my mind; it does not occur to my recollection; the thought did not occur to me. There doth not occur to me any use of this experiment for profit. 3. To appear; to meet the eye; to be found here and there. This word occurs in twenty places in the Scriptures; the other word does not occur in a single place; it does not occur in the sense suggested. 4. To oppose; to obviate. [Not used.]
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