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On occasion   /ɑn əkˈeɪʒən/   Listen
noun
Occasion  n.  
1.
A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident; event. "The unlooked-for incidents of family history, and its hidden excitements, and its arduous occasions."
2.
A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance; convenience. "Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me." "I'll take the occasion which he gives to bring Him to his death."
3.
An occurrence or condition of affairs which brings with it some unlooked-for event; that which incidentally brings to pass an event, without being its efficient cause or sufficient reason; accidental or incidental cause. "Her beauty was the occasion of the war."
4.
Need; exigency; requirement; necessity; as, I have no occasion for firearms. "After we have served ourselves and our own occasions." "When my occasions took me into France."
5.
A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion. "Whose manner was, all passengers to stay, And entertain with her occasions sly."
On occasion,
(a)
in case of need; in necessity; as convenience requires. "That we might have intelligence from him on occasion,"
(b)
occasionally; from time to time; now and then.
Synonyms: Need; incident; use. See Opportunity.





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... undoubtedly here, as elsewhere, the least desirable season of the year, but it compares favourably with other climates, and there is no period of melting snow or special month to be shunned, and an invalid can on occasion change with advantage his location on the elevated ground of Colorado to New Mexico, for a few weeks, guided by the ...
— The Truth About America • Edward Money
... happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular. By the universal, I mean how a person of a certain type will on occasion speak or act, according to the law of probability or necessity; and it is this universality at which poetry aims in the names she attaches to the personages. The particular is—for example—what Alcibiades did or suffered. In Comedy this is already apparent: for here ...
— Poetics • Aristotle
... contemporaneity of men like ourselves with the great edentate and pachydermatous mammals, which were the most characteristic creatures of the American fauna. The prehistoric inhabitants of North America were familiar with the mastodon, those of South America with the glyptodon, the shell of which on occasion served as a roof to the dwelling of primeval reran, which dwelling was often but a den hollowed out of the ground. As in Europe, the early inhabitants of America had to contend with powerful mammals and fierce carnivora; and in the West as in the East ...
— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac
... the Chatterer. He persistently terrorized me. He was always pinching me and cuffing me, and on occasion he was not above biting me. Often my mother interfered, and the way she made his fur fly was a joy to see. But the result of all this was a beautiful and unending family quarrel, in which I was the bone ...
— Before Adam • Jack London
... a prince, deadly hostility and danger, enthusiastic admiration and extravagant scorn, excess and poverty, followed each other in confusion. The humanist needed to know how to carry a great erudition and to endure a succession of various positions and occupations. To these were added on occasion stupefying and disorderly enjoyment, and when the basest demands were made on him he had to be indifferent to all morals. Haughtiness was a certain consequence in character. The humanists needed it to sustain themselves, and the alternation ...
— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner


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