preoccupate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PREOC'CUPATE, verb transitive [Latin proeoccupo; proe and occupo, to seize.] 1. To anticipate; to take before. 2. To prepossess; to fill with prejudices. [Instead of this, preoccupy is used.]
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