preoccupateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

動詞

preoccupate (三人称単数 現在形 preoccupates, 現在分詞 preoccupating, 過去形および過去分詞形 preoccupated)

1. (obsolete) To influence, to occupy (the mind) in advance; to be preoccupied with.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821:
     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.40:

     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. (obsolete) To meet in advance; to forestall, pre-empt.