Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OB'VI-OUS-LY, adv.

1. Evidently; plainly; apparently; manifestly. Men do not always pursue what is obviously their interest.
2. Naturally. Mayday.
3. Easily to be found. Selden.

OB'VI-OUS-NESS, n.

State of being plain or evident to the eye or mind.

OC-CA'SION, n.

1. s as z. [L. occasio, from occido, to fall, ob and cado.]
2. Properly, a falling, happening or coming to; an occurrence, casualty, incident; something distinct from the ordinary course or regular order of things. Hooker.
3. Opportunity; convenience; favorable time, season .or circumstances. I'll tate th' occasion which he gives to bring Him to his death. Waller. Use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh. Gal. v. Sin taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me. Rom. vii.
4. Accidental cause; incident, event or fact giving rise to something else. What was the occasion of this custom? Her beauty was the occasion of the war. Dryden
5. Incidental need; casual exigency; opportunity accompanied with need or demand. So we say, we have occasion for all our resources. We have frequent occasions for assisting each other. The ancient canons were well fitted for the occasion of the church in its purer ages. Baker. My occasions have found time to use them toward a supply of money. Shak.

OC-CA'SION, v.i. [Fr. occasionner.]

1. To cause incidentally; to cause; to produce. The expectation of war occasions a depression in the price of stocks. Consumptions are often occasioned by colds. In digestion occasions pain in the head. Heat occasions lassitude.
2. To influence; to cause. If we inquire what it is that occasions men to make several combinations of simple ideas into distinct modes. Locke.

OC-CA'SION-A-BLE, a.

s as z. That may be caused. or occasioned. [Little used.] Barrow.

OC-CA'SION-AL, a.

1. s as z. [Fr. occasionnel.]
2. Incidental; casual; occurring at times, but not regular or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits. We make occasional remarks on the events of the age.
3. Produced by accident; as, the occasional origin of a thing. Brown.
4. Produced or made on some special event; as, an occasional discourse.

OC-CA'SION-AL-ISM, n.

A name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, by which they account for the apparent action of the soul on the body, as in voluntary action. Brande.

OC-CA'SION-AL-LY, adv.

s as z. According to incidental exigence; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity oilers; not regularly. He was occasionally present at our meetings. We have occasionally lent our aid.

OC-CA'SION-ED, pp.

s as z. Caused incidentally; caused; produced.

OC-CA'SION-ER, n.

s as z. One that causes or produces, either incidentally or otherwise. He was the occasioner of Iota to his neighbor. Sanderson.

OC-CA'SION-ING, ppr.

s as z. Causing incidentally as otherwise.

OC-CA'SIVE, a.

Falling; descending; western; pertaining to the setting sun. Amplitude is ortive or occasive. Encyc.

OC-CE-CA'TION, n. [L. {foreign}; ob and {foreign}, to blind.]

The act of making blind. [Little used.] Sanderson,

OC'CI-DENT, n. [L. occidens, occido, to fall; ob and cado.]

The west; the western quarter of the hemisphere; so called from the decline or fall of the sun. Encyc.

OC-CI-DENT'AL, a. [L. occidentalia.]

Western; opposed to oriental; pertaining to the western quarter of the hemisphere, or to some part of the earth westward of the speaker or spectator; as, occidental climates; occidental pearl; occidental gold. Encyc.

OC-CID'U-OUS, a. [L. occido, occiduus.]

Western. .[Little used.]

OC-CIP'IT-AL, a. [from L. occiput, the back part of the head; ob and caput.]

Pertaining to the back part of the head, or to the occiput.

OC'CI-PUT, n. [L. ob and caput, head.]

The hinder part of the head, or that part of the skull which forms the hind part of the head.

OC-CIS'ION, n.

s as z. [L. occisio, from occido, to kill; ob and {foreign}.] A killing; the act of killing. [Not used.]

OC-CLUDE, v.t. [L. occludo; ob and cludo, claudo., to shut.]

To shut up; to close. [Little used.] Brown.

OC-CLUSE, a. [L. occlusus.]

Shut; closed. [Little used.] Hader.

OC-CLU'SION, n.

a as a. [L. occlusio.] A shutting up; closing. Howell [This as an elegant word, though little used.]

OC-CULT', a. [L. occultus, occulo; ob and celo, to conceal.]

Hidden from the eye or understanding; invisible; secret: unknown; undiscovered; undetected; as, the occult qualities of matter. Newton. The occult sciences are magic, necromancy, &c. Occult lines, in geometry, are such as are drawn with the compasses or a pencil, and are scarcely visible. Encyc.

OC-CULT-A'TION, n. [L. occultatio.]

1. A hiding; also, the time a star or planet is hid from out sight, when eclipsed by the interposition of the body of a planet. Encyc
2. In astronomy, the hiding of a star or planet from our sight by passing behind some other of the heavenly bodies.

OC-CULT'ED, a.

Hid; secret. [Not used.] Shak.