| 单词 | necessary occasion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnecessary occasion. b. An act of defecation. Also necessary occasion. Chiefly in plural. Now rare and English regional. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > [noun] needOE necessary1440 needinga1500 bodily function1655 occasion1670 toileting1793 call1815 voiding1926 1670 P. Rycaut Pres. State Ottoman Empire (ed. 3) iii. xi. 206 The Camp is always clean and free from ordure and filth; there being holes digged nere every Tent, which are encompassed about with Canvas for the more privacy and accommodation in mens necessary occasions. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 156 Where they do all occasions, leaving their Excrements there. 1698 Bp. S. Patrick Comm. Third Bk. Moses viii. 125 While some watched, others might sleep, or step out about the necessary occasions of Nature. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iv. xx. 367 My master Don Quixote..eats, drinks, and does his occasions, like other men. 1789 M. Madan in tr. Persius Satires (1795) 38 (note) It was unlawful to do their occasions or to make water in any sacred place. 1798 tr. J. F. G. de la Pérouse Voy. round World (J. Johnson ed.) II. ix. 136 They never remove themselves more than two steps for the performance of any necessary occasion, in which they seek neither for shade nor privacy, as if they had not an instant to lose. 1810 T. Fremantle Let. 30 Oct. in Wynne Diaries (1940) My pug dog improves daily but having given him a beating for doing his lawful occasions in my cabin. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 258 Gone for his occasion, or 'on his occasions', in a particular sense of necessity, not demanding further explanation. a1903 J. Wright in Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) [Berks.] He has only gone to do his occasions. < as lemmas |
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