preoccupate

verb

1. To influence, to occupy (the mind) in advance; to be preoccupied with.

   obsolete

   the mad and fond curiositie of our nature, ammusing it selfe to preoccupate future things, as if it had not enough to doe to digest the present.

2. To meet in advance; to forestall, pre-empt.

   obsolete

Where it comes from

Borrowed from past participle stem of Latin praeoccupare, from prae- (“pre-”) + occupare (“occupy”); equivalent to pre- + occupate. Doublet of preoccupy.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry preoccupate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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