Oc-cûr', v. i.

v. i. [imp. & p. p. OCCURRED; p. pr. & vb. n. OCCURRING.] — [Lat. occurrere, from prefix ob and currere, to run; It. occorrere, Sp. occurrir, Pr. occorrer, occorre, O. Fr. occurrir.]

1. To meet; to clash. [Obs.] “The resistance of the bodies they occur with.” Bentley.
2. To oppose; to obviate; — with to. [Obs.]

I must occur to one specious objection. Bentley. 3. To be found here and there; to appear; to meet the eye. In Scripture, though the word heir occur, there is no such thing as “heir” in our author's sense. Locke. 4. To meet or come to the mind; to be presented to the imagination or memory. There doth not occur to me any use of this experiment for profit. Bacon.