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occult - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or dealing with supernatural or magical influences, agencies, or occurrences.
- adjective Available only to the initiate; secret or mysterious: synonym: mysterious.
- adjective Beyond the realm of human comprehension; inscrutable.
- adjective Hidden from view; concealed.
- adjective Medicine Detectable only by microscopic examination or chemical analysis, as a minute blood sample.
- adjective Not accompanied by readily detectable signs or symptoms.
- noun Occult practices or techniques.
- intransitive verb To conceal or cause to disappear from view.
- intransitive verb Astronomy To conceal by occultation.
- intransitive verb To become concealed or extinguished at regular intervals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut off from view by the intervention of another body; hide; conceal; eclipse.
- To undergo occultation; be hidden or concealed, as a star or the intermittent beam of light from a lighthouse.
- 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.
- Mysterious; transcendental; beyond the bounds of natural knowledge.
- Synonyms Latent, Covert, etc. (see
secret ), unrevealed, recondite, abstruse, veiled, shrouded, mystic, cabalistic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Hidden from the eye or the understanding; invisible; secret; concealed; unknown.
- adjective (Geom.) a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure or problem, but not to appear in the finished plan.
- adjective those qualities whose effects only were observed, but the nature and relations of whose productive agencies were undetermined; -- so called by the schoolmen.
- adjective those sciences of the Middle Ages which related to the supposed action or influence of occult qualities, or supernatural powers, as alchemy, magic, necromancy, and astrology.
- transitive verb To eclipse; to hide from sight.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, astronomy To
cover orhide from view. - verb transitive, rare To
dissimulate ,conceal , orobfuscate . - adjective medicine
Secret ;hidden from generalknowledge ;undetected - adjective Related to the occult; pertaining to
mysticism ,magic , orastrology . - adjective
Esoteric . - noun
Supernatural affairs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun supernatural forces and events and beings collectively
- verb cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention
- adjective hidden and difficult to see
- noun supernatural practices and techniques
- verb hide from view
- adjective having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
- verb become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin occultus, secret, past participle of occulere, to cover over; see kel- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Latin occultō ("hide, keep secret").
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Examples
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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 Thomas Wood
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Many people think the word psychic is synonymous with the word occult and, therefore, connected with Satan.
CREATE YOUR OWN FUTURE Jennifer Ann Daddio 2003
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Many people think the word psychic is synonymous with the word occult and, therefore, connected with Satan.
CREATE YOUR OWN FUTURE Jennifer Ann Daddio 2003
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Astronomers refer to this phenomenon as an "occultation," taken from the Latin word occultÄre, which means "to conceal."
Livescience.com 2008
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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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The arcanum "could have happened", basically, if we believe in occult systems which transcend the laws of nature.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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The arcanum "could have happened", basically, if we believe in occult systems which transcend the laws of nature.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008
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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 2008
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Lowdown: The occult is a grace note in this cynical whodunit, juicy with periodic detail.
March 2007 2007
Related Words
synonyms (319)
Words with the same meaning
- abstract
- abstruse
- airy
- anagogic
- apply to
- arcana
- arcane
- arcanum
- asomatous
- astral
- baffling
- becloud
- beclouded
- bedarken
- bedim
- befog
- begloom
- between the lines
- black
- black magic
- black out
- blacken
- blanket
- blind
- block
- block the light
- blot out
- bodiless
- bodilessness
- brown
- buried
- bury
- cabala
- cabalic
- cabalism
- cabalistic
- cabbala
- cabbalism
- cabbalistic
- cache
- camouflage
- canopy
- cast a shadow
- censored
- classified
- classified information
- cloak
- close
- closed
- clothe
- cloud
- cloud over
- clouded
- conceal
- concealed
- confidence
- confidential communication
- cope
- cover
- cover up
- covered
- covert
- cowl
- dark
- darken
- darken over
- decarnate
- decarnated
- deep
- delitescent
- dim
- dim out
- discarnate
- disembodied
- disguise
- dissemble
- distract attention from
- ditch
- dormant
- eclipse
- eclipsed
- eerie
- eeriness
- elfdom
- encloud
- encompass with shadow
- enigma
- enigmatic
- ensconce
- enshroud
- envelop
- esoteric
- esoterica
- ethereal
- extramundane
- extraterrestrial
- faerie
- fey
- film
- ghostliness
- ghostly
- gloom
- gloss over
- guarded secret
- heavy
- hermetic
- hermetics
- hibernating
- hid
- hidden
- hide
- hood
- hush-hush
- hypernormal
- hyperphysical
- immaterial
- immateriality
- immaterialness
- impalpability
- impalpable
- impenetrable
- imponderability
- imponderable
- in a cloud
- in a fog
- in eclipse
- in purdah
- in the wings
- incommunicado
- incomprehensible
- incorporate
- incorporeal
- incorporeality
- incorporeity
- indecipherable
- inexplicable
- inextension
- inscrutable
- insubstantial
- intangibility
- intangible
- invisible
- keep under cover
- latent
- lay on
- lay over
- lurking
- magical
- mantle
- mask
- metaphysic
- miraculousness
- muffle
- muffled
- murk
- mysterious
- mysteriousness
- mystery
- mystery of mysteries
- mystic
- mystical
- mystifying
- nonexteriority
- nonmaterial
- nonphysical
- numinous
- numinousness
- obduce
- obfuscate
- obfuscated
- obnubilate
- obscure
- obscured
- obumbrate
- occult phenomena
- occultate
- occultism
- otherworldliness
- otherworldly
- overcast
- overcloud
- overlay
- overshadow
- overspread
- perplexing
- personal matter
- phantom
- possible
- potential
- preterhuman
- preternatural
- preternaturalism
- preternormal
- pretersensual
- private
- private matter
- privileged communication
- privity
- privy
- profound
- profound secret
- psychic
- psychical research
- psychicism
- psychics
- psychism
- put on
- puzzling
- recondite
- restricted
- restricted information
- screen
- scum
- sealed book
- secluded
- secluse
- secret
- secrete
- sequestered
- shade
- shadow
- shadowiness
- shadowy
- shield
- shroud
- shrouded
- sleeping
- slur over
- smothered
- somber
- sorcery
- spirit world
- spiritual
- spirituality
- spirituousness
- spread over
- stash
- stifled
- submerged
- superhuman
- superhumanity
- superimpose
- supernatural
- supernaturalism
- supernaturality
- supernaturalness
- supernature
- supernormal
- supernormalness
- superphysical
- superphysicalness
- superpose
- supersensible
- supersensibleness
- supersensual
- suppressed
- supramundane
- supranatural
- supranaturalism
- supranature
- the occult
- the supernatural
- the supersensible
- the unknown
- theosophical
- theosophist
- top secret
- transcendental
- transcendentalism
- transmundane
- ulterior
- unbreatheable
- under an eclipse
- under cover
- under house arrest
- under security
- under the surface
- under wraps
- underground
- underlying
- undisclosable
- undisclosed
- undivulgable
- undivulged
- unearthliness
- unearthly
- unembodied
- unexplainable
- unexplained
- unextended
- unfathomable
- unfleshly
- unhuman
- unknown
- unmanifested
- unphysical
- unrevealable
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- unspoken
- unsubstantial
- unsubstantiality
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- untellable
- untold
- unutterable
- unuttered
- unwhisperable
- unworldliness
- unworldly
- vague
- varnish
- veil
- veiled
- virtual
- weird
- whitewash
- witchcraft
- witchery
- wrapped in clouds
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