occurrent
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French occurrent and its source, Latin occurrēns.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈkʌɹənt/
Adjective
occurrent (comparative more occurrent, superlative most occurrent)
- Current, actual, occurring.
Noun
occurrent (plural occurrents)
- (now chiefly philosophy) An event, something that occurs.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 2, member 4:
- the only comfort (saith Jovius) he had to ease his melancholy thoughts, was to hear news, and to listen after those ordinary occurrents, which were brought him cum primis, by letters or otherwise, out of the remotest parts of Europe.
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- One who comes to meet another.
Anagrams
- cocurrent, uncorrect
Latin
Verb
occurrent
- third-person plural future active indicative of occurrō