occiput

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

Borrowed from Latin occiput (“the back part of the head”). Compare sinciput.

Let the occiputs, thus cut off, be interchanged, applying each to the head of his opposite party-man. — Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, Jonathan Swift
BLOOM: _(Feeling his occiput dubiously with the unparalleled embarrassment of a harassed pedlar gauging the symmetry of her peeled pears. — Ulysses, James Joyce
Upon reflecting the scalp multiple complete fracture lines are seen to radiate from both the large defect at the vertex and the smaller wound at the occiput. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission

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