Word Meanings - OCCURSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A meeting; a clash; a collision. Boyle.

Related words: (words related to OCCURSION)

• MEETER
  One who meets.
• COLLISION
  1. The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing. 2. A state of opposition; antagonism; interference. The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton.
• BOYLE'S LAW
  See LAW
• MEETEN
  To render fit.
• MEETH
  , Mead. See Meathe. Chaucer.
• MEETINGHOUSE
  A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.
• MEET
  meten, AS. m, fr. m, gem, a meeting; akin to OS. m to meet, Icel. 1. To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact
• MEETNESS
  Fitness; suitableness; propriety.
• CLASH
  1. To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together. 2. To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent
• CLASH GEAR
  A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise.
• MEETLY
  Fitly; suitably; properly.
• CLASHINGLY
  With clashing.
• MEETING
  1. A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress. 2. A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers. 3. A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonius meeting.
• WATCH MEETING
  A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.
• SMEETH
  To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot.
• BEMEET
  To meet. Our very loving sister, well bemet. Shak.
• MERRYMEETING
  A meeting for mirth.
• UNMEET
  Not meet or fit; not proper; unbecoming; unsuitable; -- usually followed by for. "Unmeet for a wife." Tennyson. And all unmeet our carpet floors. Emerson. -- Un*meet"ly, adv. -- Un*meet"ness, n.
• PRAISE-MEETING
  A religious service mainly in song.
• HELPMEET
  A wife; a helpmate. The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and thence made woman. J. H. Newman.