occulted; occulting; occults
occulter
noun
1
: not revealed : secret
deep subterranean occult jealousy—
J. C. Powys
J. C. Powys2
: not easily apprehended or understood : abstruse, mysterious
occult matters like nuclear physics, radiation effects and the designing of rockets—Robert Bendiner
Robert Bendiner3
: hidden from view : concealed
occult underground passages
4
: of or relating to the occult
… the occult arts—astrology, palmistry, card reading …—Amy Fine Collins
Amy Fine Collinsoccult practices
5
: not manifest or detectable by clinical methods alone
occult carcinoma
also
: not present in macroscopic amounts
occult blood in a stool
occultly
adverb
: matters regarded as involving the action or influence of supernatural or supernormal powers or some secret knowledge of them
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Synonyms
Examples of occult in a Sentence
Verb
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
Adjective
occult practices such as magic and fortune-telling
He began to believe he had occult powers.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
This almost-full moon will occult Saturn from some parts of Asia and Africa.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Harriet Marsden, theweek, 23 Sep. 2024
How about an occult secret society, an ancestral deal with the devil and a love triangle?
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
The witch hunt had no basis in real occult violence.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
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Verb
In the days before the comet became visible above the horizon, it was lost in the sun's glare but not to LASCO, which imaged it very close to the sun using its coronagraph disk to occult the sun's disk.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
This almost-full moon will occult Saturn from some parts of Asia and Africa.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Adjective
There are even said to be more occult faith healers than medical doctors.
—Harriet Marsden, theweek, 23 Sep. 2024
How about an occult secret society, an ancestral deal with the devil and a love triangle?
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
Noun
Against this was Newton’s vision—ridiculously occult, to the logical French mind—of action at a distance, with the sun moving the Earth by a mysterious pull that spread across space, the Earth then moving the moon, and the moon then moving the tides.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
The witch hunt had no basis in real occult violence.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Occult.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/occult. Accessed 9 Nov. 2024.
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1
: beyond understanding : mysterious
2
: of or relating to supernatural forces
Medical Definition
: not manifest or detectable by clinical methods alone
occult carcinoma
also
: not present in macroscopic amounts
occult blood in a stool specimen
fecal occult blood testing
compare gross sense 1b
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