Definition of occult
occulter
nounFrom the M-W Editors
Examples of occult in a Sentence
occulted their house from prying eyes by planting large trees around it
the actor's private life had long been occulted by a contrived public persona
Recent Examples of occult from the Web
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And for some lucky sky-watchers in eastern Brazil and in central and southern Africa, the moon will occult the star.
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Origin and Etymology of occult
Latin occultare, frequentative of occulere
Definition of occult
1 : not revealed : secret deep subterranean occult jealousy — J. C. Powys
2 : not easily apprehended or understood : abstruse, mysterious occult matters like nuclear physics, radiation effects and the designing of rockets — Robert Bendiner
3 : hidden from view : concealed occult underground passages
4 : of or relating to the occult … the occult arts—astrology, palmistry, card reading … — Amy Fine Collins occult practices
5 : not manifest or detectable by clinical methods alone occult carcinoma; also : not present in macroscopic amounts occult blood in a stool
occultly
adverbExamples of occult in a Sentence
occult practices such as magic and fortune-telling
He began to believe he had occult powers.
Definition of occult
: matters regarded as involving the action or influence of supernatural or supernormal powers or some secret knowledge of them —used with the
Recent Examples of occult from the Web
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As an example, Fletcher cites The Book of Magical Charms, with its meticulous chronicle of occult practices.
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The lesbian scenes are little more than dorm room experimentation; the occult fertility ritual a joke.
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He was convicted of killing their parents, along with their aunt and uncle, in a trial that hinged on sensational testimony - from Dustin - of sexual abuse and occult rituals.
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The emperor, a passionate student of the occult, enlists Christian Stern, a young scholar and alchemist, to find the culprit.
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SOMEWHERE between occult Turin and stuffy bourgeois Turin — though not unconnected with either — is artistic Turin.
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Another possibility, considerably less likely but equally self-sparing, is that your missing object engineered its own vanishing, alone or in conjunction with other occult forces.
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DeLillo, the most perceptive (almost occult) chronicler of contemporary life, has not invented the Convergence out of whole cloth: Its DNA comes from an old evangelism dressed in a new rhetoric and streaming out of Silicon Valley.
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Lucky observers in Hawaii, northern Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. may even seen the moon eclipse, or occult, the bright star, which will appear to ‘
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First Known Use of occult
1888
Other Occult Terms
OCCULT Defined for English Language Learners
occult
playDefinition of occult for English Language Learners
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: of or relating to supernatural powers or practices
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