Western Christians of the Latin rite. See Orientals.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I am a "Muslim” as "one surrendered to God”; but I believe that embedded in the Qur'an and other expressions of the Islamic vision are vast stores of divine truth from which I and other occidentals have still much to learn. William Montgomery Watt
All 27 Occidentals in the city at that time and our Chinese population were totally surprised by the reign of robbery, raping and killing initiated by your soldiers on the 14th. Source: Internet
As the chronicler Fulcher of Chartres wrote around 1124, "For we who were Occidentals now have been made Orientals. Source: Internet