occurrent

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English

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage) From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French occurrent and its source, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin occurrēns.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

occurrent (comparative more occurrent, superlative most occurrent)

  1. Current, actual, occurring.

Noun

occurrent (plural occurrents)

  1. (now chiefly philosophy) An event, something that occurs.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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.
  2. One who comes to meet another.

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) occurrent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of occurrō
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