preoccupate

Etymology
Borrowed from past participle stem of, from + ; equivalent to. .

Verb

 * 1)  To influence, to occupy (the mind) in advance; to be preoccupied with.
 * , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.40:
 * the mad and fond curiositie of our nature, ammusing it selfe to preoccupate future things, as if it had not enough to doe to digest the present.
 * 1)  To meet in advance; to forestall, pre-empt.