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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 40 Þe occiput, þe nolle, is þe hynder partie of þe heed.

1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus ii. i. 516 Your occiput. I meane your head peece.

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 57 Expedition is the life of action, otherwise Time may shew his bald occiput and shake his posteriors at them in derision.

1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 400 Ruffians, who first by a Blow on the Occiput knockt him to the Ground.

1763 J. Woodforde Diary 7 Sept. in Woodeforde at Oxf. (1969) 152 I fell down dead, and cut my Occiput very bad indeed.

1798 J. O'Keeffe Man-Milliner ii. iii. 354 There's a tumour in the occiput. Eh! may be an operation is necessary.

1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. i. 5 Vinaceous-grey Coly, with a blue tail, crested head, and shining green occiput.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 365 Occiput (the Occiput). The back part of the head when it is vertical, or nearly so, to its point of junction with the trunk.

1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 81 The straight but inclined line of the occiput.

1935 J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans ii. 39 The..‘Emasiatic’ type, with flattened occiput and crown.

1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xii. 166 The topmost part of the epicranium is the vertex; posterior to the vertex on the back of the head lies the occiput; the anterior part is the frons; and the lateral parts are the genae or cheeks.

1982 A. Burgess End of World News 179 Trotsky takes his chance and cracks him on the occiput with the front edge of the chair seat.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man Proeme sig. Biiij The first Vertebre inseparably growne to Occiput.

1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 158 One of the condyles of the occiput, which is articulated with the first vertebra.

1786 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 76 357 I took first the greatest circumference of the head from the most prominent part of the occiput around over the frontal sinuses.

1836 G. Head Home Tour 263 It was but half a skull,..the occiput had entirely disappeared.

1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xii. 414 The American skulls are characterised by a flattened occiput.

1899 Science 3 Feb. 162/1 Both skulls are dolichocephalic with high occiputs.

1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. i. 149 A start is made by inserting scissor blades into the cranial cavity and cutting back along each side in turn through the occiput, the membrane between occiput and atlas, the atlas and succeeding vertebrae.

1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) viii. 262 Nerve XII usually occupies a separate hypoglossal foramen, sometimes multiple, in the floor of the occiput.