Meaning of preoccupier | Babel Free

Definitions

A previous occupant.

Examples

“Like our Preoccupiers, the Antient^([sic]) Britons, the Indians perform all religious Ceremonies and Mysteries in the deepest Retreat of the Woods; […]”

“The surface-ground was in tolerably good heart — it had been used and manured for vegetable crops; but the sub-soil was wholly artificial, the preoccupier of the spot having converted a saw-yard and timber premises into a garden […]”

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