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adjective

Occurrent adj. Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.

noun

Occurrent n.

One who meets; hence, an adversary. (Obs.)

Anything that happens; an occurrence. (Obs.) "These we must meet with in obvious occurrents of the world."

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Etymology of 'Occurrent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Occurrent" Quotes from Famous Books

... valley of the Mississippi and eastward to Nova Scotia. For its naming, students in America have vainly waited the decision of those having access to mycologic types in Europe. It seems now certain that the species is extremely rare in the old world if there occurrent; never seen by any of the earlier taxonomists including Fries and Rostafinski; perhaps adventitious in these later years, although thus far no specimen from Europe has reached this table.[24] P. nefroideum of Strasburg herbarium turns out, after ...

— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

... much pains. My mother's list of the chapters with which, thus learned, she established my soul in life, has just fallen out of it. I will take what indulgence the incurious reader can give me, for printing the list thus accidentally occurrent: ...

— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)