Hypertext Webster Gateway: "occasioned"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Occasion \Oc*ca"sion\ ([o^]k*k[=a]"zh[u^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Occasioned} (-zh[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Occasioning}.]
[Cf.F. occasionner.]
To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to
occasion anxiety. --South.
If we inquire what it is that occasions men to make
several combinations of simple ideas into distinct
modes. --Locke.
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