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Occult   /əkˈəlt/   Listen
Occult

noun
1.
Supernatural forces and events and beings collectively.  Synonym: supernatural.
2.
Supernatural practices and techniques.  Synonym: occult arts.
verb
1.
Cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention.  Synonym: eclipse.  "Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies"
2.
Become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished.
3.
Hide from view.
adjective
1.
Hidden and difficult to see.  "Occult blood in the stool"
2.
Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding.  Synonyms: mysterious, mystic, mystical, orphic, secret.  "The mystical style of Blake" , "Occult lore" , "The secret learning of the ancients"



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"Occult" Quotes from Famous Books



... had been able to follow, Mrs. Veda Blair's story had dealt mostly with a Professor and Madame Rapport and something she called the "Red Lodge" of the "Temple of the Occult." ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve
... the lotus in some occult fashion, are straightway bewitched and held willing captives. I have looked up the lotus, about which so much is said or sung and so little definitely known, and find it is a prickly shrub of Africa, bearing a fruit of a sweet ...
— A Truthful Woman in Southern California • Kate Sanborn
... but the silent one before him gave unuttered command for silence. The conflict was on. Not a conflict of gleaming blades; not a conflict of cunning, neither of Senatorial oratory, nor contention of the wise gone mad. In the arena of the occult was the conflict on between such forces as move constellations and give birth to worlds. And the one force was white and the one was black. The one was the will of God leading by way of man's reason to Liberty and Life. The other was perversion leading by ...
— The Coming of the King • Bernie Babcock
... growing anxiety communicated itself in some occult way to the other members of her household, even to Loll, to whom she gave daily lessons in reading, writing and arithmetic. The little fellow was at this time moved to write and illustrate a book on some ...
— Where the Sun Swings North • Barrett Willoughby
... the horrors of the underworld were, for her, congregated together in him. She trembled at the memory of having been in his arms, shut up alone with him in the flat by the river. She attributed to him nameless powers. Something mysterious in him, something occult, had reduced her apparently to the level of an imaginative child, who peoples the night with spectres and conceives of terrors she ...
— December Love • Robert Hichens


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