Preoccupier
"Preoccupier" in a Sentence (2 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 […]