Occupátio, occupatiôuis, f. g. Cic.Occupation: necessarie businesse: The holding or possessing a place: preuemion: taking of a thing before.Obsessio templorum, occupario fori, oppressio curiæ.Cicer.The taking or violent keeping or holding, &c.Occupatio rei militaris.Cic.Molestissimæ occupationes.Cic.Most grienous busincsses.Summæ atque incredibiles occupationes.Cic.Descendere ad iuris ciuilis perdiscendi occupationem Cicer.To giue himselfe to the sludie of learning the cinile lawe.Distineri occupatione aliqua.Cic.To be sore troubled with a businesse.Eriperc tempus è summis occupationibus.Cic.Fm his very vrgent businesse, to sleale a time to do a thing.Expedire se ab omni occupatione.Cic.Impedicbat te ista conuiuiorum occupatio.Cic.This bussnesse about your feastings did you.Implicatus occupationibus.Cic.Wrapped in.In maximis occupationibus nunquam intermittis studia doctrinæ.Cic.Obseruare occupationes.Cic.Occupationibus prohiberi aliquid sacere. Cæs. By his bussnesse to be letted to do a thing.Relaxare se occupationibus.Cic.To set himselfe at libertie srom businesse. Occupatio, Author ad Heren.Preuention.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
occŭpātĭo, ōnis, f. [occupo], a taking possession of a thing; a seizing, occupying (class.). I.Lit. (very rare): fori, Cic. Dom. 3: vetus,
a taking possession
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seizure
, id. Off. 1, 7, 21.—II.Transf.A. Rhet. t. t.: ante occupatio, an anticipation of an opponent's objections, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 205 (but in Auct. Her. 4, 27, 37, the true reading is occultatio, q. v.).—B.A business, employment, occupation (the usual meaning, esp. of public service; cf. studium): in maximis occupationibus tuis numquam intermittis studia doctrinae, Cic. Or. 10, 34: maximis occupationibus distinebar, id. Fam. 12, 30, 2: nullis occupationibus inplicatus, id. N. D. 1, 19, 51: ille aut occupatione aut difficultate tardior tibi erit visus, id. Fam. 7, 17, 2: ab omni occupatione se expedire, id. Att. 3, 20, 2: relaxare se occupatione, id. ib. 16, 16, 2.—With gen.: neque has tantularum rerum occupationes sibi Britanniae anteponendas judicabat,