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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of, relating to, or dealing with supernatural influences, agencies, or phenomena.
  2. adj. Beyond the realm of human comprehension; inscrutable.
  3. adj. Available only to the initiate; secret: occult lore. See Synonyms at mysterious.
  4. adj. Hidden from view; concealed.
  5. adj. Medicine Detectable only by microscopic examination or chemical analysis, as a minute blood sample.
  6. adj. Not accompanied by readily detectable signs or symptoms: occult carcinoma.
  7. n. Occult practices or techniques: a student of the occult.
  8. v. To conceal or cause to disappear from view.
  9. v. Astronomy To conceal by occultation: The moon occulted Mars.
  10. v. To become concealed or extinguished at regular intervals: a lighthouse beacon that occults every 45 seconds.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Not apparent upon mere inspection, nor deducible from what is so apparent, but discoverable only by experimentation; relating to what is thus undiscoverable by mere inspection: opposed to manifest. The Latin word was applied in the middle ages to the physical sciences and the properties of bodies to which those sciences relate. Its precise meaning is explained in the treatise “De Magnete” of Petrus Peregrinus. He says that an occult quality is simply one which is made apparent only upon experimentation, but that in that way it becomes as plain and clear as any other quality, and is no more mysterious. By occult science or philosophy was meant simply experimental science. There were many occult philosophers in northern Europe in the twelfth and the first part of the thirteenth century; but theology so swallowed up other interests that they are all forgotten except Roger Bacon, who was made prominent by the personal friendship of a pope. The ignorance and superstition of the time confounded occult science with magic.
  2. Mysterious; transcendental; beyond the bounds of natural knowledge.
  3. Synonyms Latent, Covert, etc. (see secret), unrevealed, recondite, abstruse, veiled, shrouded, mystic, cabalistic.
  4. To cut off from view by the intervention of another body; hide; conceal; eclipse.
  5. To undergo occultation; be hidden or concealed, as a star or the intermittent beam of light from a lighthouse.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive, astronomy To cover or hide from view.
  2. v. transitive, rare To dissimulate, conceal, or obfuscate.
  3. adj. medicine Secret; hidden from general knowledge; undetected
  4. adj. Related to the occult; pertaining to mysticism, magic, or astrology.
  5. adj. Esoteric.
  6. n. Supernatural affairs.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Hidden from the eye or the understanding; invisible; secret; concealed; unknown.
  2. v. To eclipse; to hide from sight.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. supernatural forces and events and beings collectively
  2. v. cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention
  3. adj. hidden and difficult to see
  4. n. supernatural practices and techniques
  5. v. hide from view
  6. adj. having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
  7. v. become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished

Etymologies

  1. From Latin occultō ("hide, keep secret"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin occultus, secret, past participle of occulere, to cover over; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “WORDS ACCENTED ON THE LAST SYLLABLE: address _address'_ adept _adept'_ adult _adult'_ ally _ally'_ commandant _commandänt '(ä as in arm) _ contour _contour'_ dessert _dessert'_ dilate _dilate'_ excise _eksiz'_ finance _finance'_ grimace _grimace'_ importune _importune'_ occult _occult'_ pretence _pretence'_ research _research'_ robust _robust'_ romance _romance'_ tirade _tirade'_”

    Practical Grammar and Composition

  • “Many people think the word psychic is synonymous with the word occult and, therefore, connected with Satan.”

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  • “Astronomers refer to this phenomenon as an "occultation," taken from the Latin word occultÄre, which means "to conceal.”

    Livescience.com

  • “Even nowadays, the following injunction may be found in occult schools: “know, dare, do, and be silent.””

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  • “Like the many hand gestures described herein, the Sign of Resignation generates a certain occult power of which we shall discuss later in an upcoming article when we apply and incorporate the sign in our mudra practices.”

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  • “Although the theme of enlightenment vs. occult is ... okay, there I go, being too close to the material again.”

    Traitor to the Crown

  • “The arcanum "could have happened", basically, if we believe in occult systems which transcend the laws of nature.”

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  • “Lowdown: The occult is a grace note in this cynical whodunit, juicy with periodic detail.”

    March 2007

  • “While this was occurring, there were studies, as Anisomov has written regarding using mind control and brainwashing to make persons happy in occult thinking which evolved into more heresy in ritual and other ideas, basically after years of these studies, having the effect of turning everyone into the mindless, the sexual slaves and Abu Gharib criminals who enjoy sexual crimes, mass murder, and even many like Jeffrey Dahmer, cannibalistic.”

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  • “This slushiness, like his sporadic interest in spiritualism and the occult, is of exactly the sort that he was best at lampooning — most especially in the Princess Diana — like person of Madeleine Bassett, a ghastly girl who thinks that the stars are God's daisy-chain.”

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